Structured Settlements for You and For Those You Leave Behind
John Darer • February 8, 2024
How Would You Like to be Remembered?
Structured settlements can be used to fund an enduring legacy for a predetermined period of time for your children or grandchildren, no matter what happens.
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Both fixed and market based structured settlements can be used to create a loving legacy holiday or birthday gify each year " from Dad", "from Mom" or " from Grandma/Grandpa". And it something that you can create no that has lasting value and adds meaning to money. How does it compare with using life insurance?
For more information contact settlement expert John Darer, President of 4structures.com LLC who has 40 years of financial services experience, with over 30 years' experience as a settlement expert and a unique credential as a Certified Financial Transitionist that only one other settlement planner in the United States has earned.
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In the structured settlement annuity industry, dominated by many of the largest life insurers in the United States, Independent Life Insurance Company (ILIC) achieved significant milestones in 2024. Good news, positives and some concerns discussed in this lattest post.
Prudential and Pacific Life have once again been named among the world's most ethical companies. Prudential received the award for the 11th time., Pacific Life received the award for the 8th time. Prudential and Pacific Life are leading issuers of structured settlement annuities.
John Darer reviews structured settlement annuity market expansion featuring 3 new entrants Athene Life & Annuity, American National (ANICO) and Puritan Life as well as MetLife's development of a best in class
What is a Settlement Agreement and Release? What is the role of a Settlement Agreement and Release in establishing a structured settlement? What is a compromise?
John Darer reviews the primary structured settlement market, secindary market and tertiary structured settlement markets
A structured settlement annuity does not drive the tax consequences of structured settlement annuity payments. It is the type of damages the structured settlement annuity payments represent, as reflected in the relevant settlement documentation executed by the settling parties
Structured settlement beneficiary death claim. An executor cannot change the beneficiary of a structured settlement annuity. StructuredTypically, settlement agreements permit the Payee to name or change a beneficiary, provided such change is in writing and submitted to the Assigmment Company or annuity issuer in writing and in proper form.
Which life insurance companies write structured settlement annuities for personal injury and wrrongful death settlements in Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, Westchester, Erie, Rockland, Albany,Monroe in 2025 through licensed representatives?
Why Structured Settlements? Because Certain Sells® Structured settlements offer predictable income streams, which can be appealing to rein in uncertainty. John Darer reviews some other reasons that structured settlements are increasingly being used to settle cases:
Structured settlements have roots that trace back more than 100 years, from 1918, when Congress exempted damages for personal injury or sickness from income tax, to the establishment of structured settlements as the core personal injury settlement planning tool it is today.
