Disability Law

NASP 2008 Annual Meeting - 2

By Patrick Hindert

S2KM's prior NASP 2008 blog post (NASP 2008 Annual Meeting - 1):

• Summarizes the NASP presentations which S2KM attended;
• Highlights the questions S2KM addressed to NASP's structured settlement panel.

This S2KM blog post:

• Re-introduces the NASP structured settlement panelists;
• Re-confirms the panel structured settlement topic;
• Provides links to S2KM background resources;
• Outlines S2KM's summary format;
• Highlights the secondary issues.

S2KM's next NAMSAP 2008 blog post will summarize the panel's responses to:

• S2KM's questions; and
• Questions and comments from NASP attendees.

The NASP structured settlement panelists:

• Jack Meligan, President of Settlement Professionals, Inc.;
• Michael Upchurch, President of Delta Settlement Solutions; and
• Matthew Bracy, General Counsel of Settlement Capital Corporation.

Panel topic: How to Improve and Grow the Structured Settlement Market

Recommended S2KM resources:

• S2KM blog series titled "How to Grow the Structured Settlement Market"
• Additional S2KM blog posts
  • NASP 2007 Annual Meeting - 3 posts
  • 2006 NASP Annual Meeting - multiple posts including
    • Overview of the Structured Settlement Market
    • How the Primary Market Views Factoring
  • Structured Settlement Thought Leadership Conference
  • Fresno County Factoring Cases - see Pullman & Comley Structured Settlement Insights - 2
• S2KM public wikis
  • Structured settlement wiki
  • Structured settlement public policy wiki
  • AIG Structured Settlement Wiki

Summary format - this S2KM blog post:

• will not attempt to summarize individual panel member responses to specific questions;
• will summarize, from the moderator's perspective and notes, the conversation that took place between moderator, panelists and audience.

Secondary issues - The NASP structured settlement panel topic presents three secondary issues:

• Are settlement transfers (IRC 5891 and the state protection statutes) good or bad for the structured settlement industry?
• What is the future of the structured settlements industry?
• How can the primary and secondary structured settlement markets collaborate to improve and grow the structured settlement market?

Full post as published by Beyond Structured Settlements on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).