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Why a Structured Settlement Expert and Transitionist?

Settlement Experts with Transitionist Expertise Help Bridge Gaps Through a Humanistic Process


The use of a structured settlement expert, particularly one with financial transitionist training expertise can help bridge gaps between parties, reduce litigation expenses by creating customized short, intermediate or long-term financial security for personal injury, wrongful death and employment claimants through our settlement consulting services and humanistic process. 


While structured settlements may be familiar to many corporate defendants, insurers and their counsel, utilization may not be effective or often enough to achieve the optimal effect on the underwriting bottom-line. Quality structured settlement advisers are current, licensed and multi credentialed professionals, advocates and facilitators of a complete solution to claims, dispute or lawsuit resolution that can have a positive effect on the bottom line of your company, clients, insureds or re-insureds.


Claims adjusters and counsel should consider a structured settlement expert who can collaborate with them as a team member, in lieu of strictly an annuity quoting source. From the standpoint of familiarity, most quality structured settlement brokers and settlement planners see more cases involving structured settlements than even the busiest risk managers, adjusters, claims personnel and defense counsel. Given the opportunity, creative and imaginative personalized input can be provided. Whether you are a risk manager, adjuster, claims personnel or defense counsel, early involvement in a case will enable your structured settlement expert to better assist you and your colleagues with collateral source analysis, assist in discovery to help identify areas of economic damages that can be mitigated using innovative techniques, measuring quantum in life care plans, make sure that fatal flaws to structured settlements are not made in settlement documents, and provide valuable input for your consideration. Some solutions for settlement resolution, such as the equity based variable income structured settlements require a level of technical expertise as well the appropriate securities and insurance licenses. Such settlement solutions are best presented, and may be required to be presented, by someone who is appropriately licensed.

Make Settlement Offers That Resonate


A structured settlement expert can add value at a mediation   to help quantify the real cost of damages, help make your settlement offers resonate, by adding meaning to money and, when appropriate, to give input as part of your team. The value of a structured settlement as good public relations should not be underestimated.

Why Structured Settlements?  Because Certain Sells®


The structured settlement is a vital core personal injury settlement planning tool for injury victims, even more so in times of economic volatility. This is because when done right, in its various forms, the structured settlement concept really works. People embrace the simplicity over the abstract and the certainty that structured settlement payments represent. It is worth noting that one of the reasons the there is a robust secondary market to buy structured settlement payments rights or receivables, is the perception that it is a good investment for investors. Among those investors have been plaintiff personal injury lawyers for the retirement plans.


While the industry has consolidated over the last 15 years in terms of the number of structured settlement annuity issuers, there are more product offerings and solutions as the structured settlement industry has expanded in sophistication through the emergence of settlement planning as a profession. Furthermore, innovative fixed and market based product developments, more complete education (that includes the Registered Settlement Planner, Master Structured Settlement Consultant designations and in the case of our John Darer, the Certified Financial Transitionist (CeFT) among others), leads to more innovation, better education of judges and litigating parties and application for the concept and greater technological efficiency.


Last updated September 30, 2023




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