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Effective November 6th, 2009, Hartford Life, part of Hartford Financial, will cease writing structured settlement annuities and shut down what was once one of the leading structured settlement divisions in the market.
This comes as no great shock as the company has been staggered by a series of market related developments that made it almost impossible for structured settlement brokers to utilize their product.
The first major change was the...
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On today's Speaking of Settlements I am joined by John Darer as we discuss the Scott Rothstein case in South Florida where it appears he was at the center of a major financial fraud involving the "cash now" group that preys on desperate plaintiffs who need money.
While that case and story are deserving of several broadcasts, today's centers on the careless use of the term Structured Settlements in the complaint that was filed to...
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In yet more bad news for the structured settlement profession the FBI today put out an announcement for information from the public and investors who had been burned or involved with what they are calling the Rothstein Structure Settlement Investments. (RSSI). Scott Rothstein
Great, just what we needed as a profession, more traffic and news with our trade name dragged into what looks to be a growing fraud in which the term Structured...
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However the primary beneficiary of the response happens to be the commentators on The Legal Broadcast Network as opposed to the larger membership of the structured settlement profession.
As our readers and viewers know, early last week a story started to percolate in the media that a major Florida law firm was about to be dragged into a scandal by it's well known and flamboyant partner, Scott Rothstein. While the story was big headlines and...
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Over the last few weeks I've had the opportunity to talk with a lot of settlement professionals and discussed some of the bigger events of the last month, among them the retreat from the structured settlement market by Hartford Life and the smearing of the structured settlement brand name in the Scott Rothstein fraud. As this is "convention season" I've met people at the NSSTA regional and several other meetings that were hosted here in...
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On this weeks Speaking of Settlements, host Mark Wahlstrom is joined by long time structured settlement broker Pat Farber of Ringler Associates.
The topic for this weeks discussion is the passage of California Senate Bill 510, a bill that was originally going to be vetoed by the Governor, but with the cooperation and assistance of both the structured settlement and factoring industry passed with enhance consumer protections for those looking...
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BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After being incarcerated for 22 years for a crime he did not commit, former Tennessee inmate Clark McMillan was freed from prison in 2002. Two years later after a long court battle, the state of Tennessee awarded Mr. McMillan a settlement for wrongful imprisonment. With mounting medical bills and a house teetering on foreclosure McMillan turned to Imperial Structured Settlements in May 2009 to raise a lump...
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Despite what the crack reporting staff at AmLaw Daily has been reporting all day, and unfortunately has been circulating through out the internet via links and cross postings, the Scott Rothstein fraud has absolutely nothing to do with Structured Settlements as erroneously reported by AmLaw Daily.
Even a modicum of reporting and analysis, never mind a call to a structured settlement firm or the NSSTA, would have revealed that this has NOTHING...
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As 2009 moves to the last quarter and the NSSTA regional in Las Vegas is in the books, I've been reflecting on the non-qualifed structured market and wondering if it isn't the single greatest failure of our profession and one that will haunt us for years as our traditional market shrinks.
First, let me state that I take the non-qualified structured settlement market very personally in that I have spent the better part of the last 4 to 5 years...
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If you were involved in an accident at work (workers compensation claim), been involved in an automobile accident, or a wrongful death case and won that lawsuit then you were awarded a settlement. If the amount was small it would have been awarded to you in a lump sum. If it was a rather large amount then it would be awarded to you in a Structured Settlement.Another benefit of structured
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