Litigation

Does your Structured Settlement Consultant Take Kickbacks From Cash Now Pushers? Sell Names of Claimants or Supply Documents From YOUR Confidential cases? How Do You Know?

By John Darer

Questions for trial lawyers

1. Does your structured settlement broker or settlement planner take kick backs from "cash now pushers"? According to one factoring broker 90% of structured settlement consultants referring her business do!  The money comes out of your client's recovery!
2. Has any client of yours told you that they were approached by a "cash now pusher" even though the settlement agreement for their case was subject to a strict confidentiality agreement?
3. Is your structured settlement broker or settlement planner sharing confidential case documents with "cash now pushers"?

HOW DO YOU KNOW FOR SURE?

1. Does your structured settlement broker have a published policy? The fact remains that very few do.
2. Is your structured settlement broker or settlement planner on the structured settlement clean vendor list?  If you or your client is referred by your structured settlement broker or settlement planner to Rhonda Bentzen of Bentzen Funding Solutions there is a substantial (90%) chance they do take kick backs, according to a statement made by Bentzen! If they are on the structured settlement clean vendor list  at least you have their statement under penalty of perjury that, as of the date they sign, they DO NOT engage in such practices.

As a reminder this author will soon publish and distribute, to the nation's trial lawyer assocations, a list of names of every known structured settlement consultant in the or settlement planner who is not on the structured settlement clean vendor list, or who has had the opportunity to make but HAS NOT made a declaration that they engage in such practices, for your reference.

Please ask these individuals what their policy is.

For your reference:

• Structured Settlement Clean Vendor List
• Those That Do
• Those That Don't Say Either Way (TBA in January 2009)
• The FAQ
  

Eventually the Matter of Honor project will catch those that engage in these business practices through process of elimination or will stop those who engage in these practices.
 

Full post as published by Structured Settlements 4Real on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).