A Society of Settlement Planners Board member needs to get their facts straight. Based on what appears on the Settlement Professionals Inc. website today, former SSP President Jack Meligan, gifted settlement planner from Oregon, a yellow highlighter “black belt”, could…
The New York Attorney General is conduction an investigation into how life insurance companies handle death benefits. It has subpoenaed a number of companies including Northwestern Mutual, Prudential Financial, Inc, MetLife, inc., New York Life Insurance Company, Genworth Financial and…
This morning I received a phone call from a structured settlement broker concerning a case with an approach so boorish it need not be be fully described here. The broker, who was not even insurance licensed in the state where…
Those concerned about yields on structured settlements and other fixed income instruments should have a look at Smart Money columnist James B. Stewart’s piece in the August 4, 2010 Wall Street Journal entitled “Defending Against Deflation”. He says: “Deflation is…
Everybody Get up and Do “The Blog Rodent Dance” Jatupat Limpanarom is this week’s Blog Rodent for excreting rat droppings on a website that does a pathetic to describe structured settlements on cashforstructuredsettlement.us for what appears to be the sole…
Justia Blawg search has ranked Structured Settlements 4Real 14th in its weekly ranking of legal subject matter blogs (blawgs). Ranking as of August 3, 2010 Blawgs are ranked based on the number of visits to the Blawg from the Justia…
I think I’ve got to the bottom of the controversial decision to move the National Structured Settlements Trade Association Fall Educational meeting from Talking Stick, AZ to Las Vegas. Some say immigration “was a factor” in the decision, but truth…
“To hold down the cost for the client the structured settlement broker will try to obtain an impaired life expectancy for the claimant”. Structured Settlement Company web site 08/03/2010 At 4structures.com, LLC we actually like to keep our clients: (1)…
If you are looking for an alternative to CDs or bonds for your IRA or pension consider structured settlement payment right, have a look below: Some of the opportunities available this week for those seeking to buy structured settlement payment…
Figure out how much you need to contribute and/or earn in order to get your portfolio back to where it was. Also useful as a savings/retirement plan projection. The New York Times has a very useful interactive graphic calculator. Calculate…