TOP STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT ANNUITY COMPANIES 2025

Footnotes

• Structured settlements are a specialized line of business for life insurance companies. Structured settlement annuities and/or periodic payment reinsurance are only available through licensed insurance agents appointed with structured settlement authority by the underwriting life insurance company.  An appointed agent of one of the above life insurance companies without structured settlement authority would have to go through an appointed agent or structured settlement broker with structured settlement authority.   You can easily verify if an agent or broker is licensed in your state by referring to the online records posted on the webistes of state department of insurance, or department of financial services.
• Beware that Structured Settlement Receivables {"factored structured settlement payment streams") that are offered by secondary market and tertiary market salespeople, including certain settlement planners, as "SMA", "SMIA" and "structured settlement investments", are not annuities. Such factored payments streams, properly defined as " structured settllement receivables", may not have statutory insolvency protections and have transactional risks not present with legitimate annuities.  See the 2017 revisions to the Life & Health Guaranty Association Model Act (#520) which had been adopted by 40 states as of August 2023. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) does not recognize acquired structured settlement payment rights as annuities or insurance products. and may be offered by people who do not hold insurance licenses who may use the term annuity or annuities  as an inducement, and/or make unauthorized use of insurer trademarked logos to mislead investors.
  
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• If you are receiving, or scheduled to receive structured annuity payments from American International Life Assurance Company of New York, and your structure was put in place prior to 7/1/2009, the assignment company would have been either American Home Assurance Company, or National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA.
• MetLife has two underwriting life insurance companies that issue structured settlement annuities, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Metropolitan Tower Life insurance Company (MTLIC).  MLIC was the original structured settlement annuity underwriting company. MTLIC, then known as Metropolitan Insurance and Annuty Company (MIAC) was used as the qualified assignment  company.  Today MLIC, which was established in 1868, is available on larger cases, while MTLIC is available for the full range as well as non qualified assignments. MLIC and MTLIC use different assignment companies.
• Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company writes annuities to fund structured installment sales in all states except New York.
• MetLife Assignment Company, Inc. offers a domestic non-qualified assignment alternative.  Payments must begin within 13 months and must be substantially equal to qualify under IRC 72(u)
• Independent Life Insurance Company began underwriting structured settlement annuities in May 2018. Independent Life became the first life insurance company to focus exclusively on the structured settlement market. Independent Life also issues annuities to fund non-qualified structured settlements, including structured installment sales and non qualified structured settlements witha  deferred start date longer thanj one year.. It is rated A by Egan Jones, which is an NAIC Tier 1 rating. See CRP Credit Rating Equivalent to SVO Designations. Indepednent Life also holds a D+ rating by Weiss Ratings. Independent Life Insurance Company is not related to Independent Life & Accident, which was acquired by American General in 1997 ( a subsidary of Corebridge Financial) and did not write structured settlement annuities.
  
• USAA Life Insurance Company is not admitted in New York and therefore cannot be used where there is no qualified assignment. In circumstances that do not require court approval, where the parties seek an A++ alternative and mutually agree, USAA Annuity Service Corp will take a qualified assignment from New York Defendants or Insurers of New York defendants. 
• Weiss Ratings  American General B, Independent Life D+, Metropolitan Life B, Metropolitan Tower Life C,  New York Life A-, Pacific Life Insurance Company A- Pacific Life & Annuty Company B+,  Prudential Insurance Company of America B, United of Omaha B, USAA Life B+  US Life B-  as of August 2024. Weiss rates based on Capitalization, Investment Safety, Profitability, Liquidity and Stability.
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Last updated on December 9, 2024

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