Disability Law

Structured Settlement 2009 Mid-Year Update - 1

By Patrick Hindert

S2KM's blog has reported developments within and interactions between "structured settlement" and "knowledge management" since 2004. This blog post begins a new S2KM series titled "Structured Settlement 2009 Mid-Year Update" the purpose of which is to analyze the transitional status of the structured settlement industry primarily based upon information disseminated at four 2009 meetings:

• NSSTA 2009 Winter Meeting
• ASNP 2009 Annual Meeting
• SSP 2009 Annual Meeting
• NSSTA 2009 Annual Meeting

Analytic framework for S2KM's analysis:

• Structured settlement industry transition:
  • From claim management to settlement consulting (which is different than, but related to, "settlement planning" and "special needs settlement planning");
  • From hardcopy, digital documents, f2f meetings, telephone calls, webinars, listserves and web 1.0 generally to interactive web 2.0;
  • Analyzing historic and growing future structured settlement annuity sales.
• Primary and secondary structured settlement markets;
• Structured settlements and government benefits;
• Structured settlement stakeholder associations;
• Structured settlement transactional analysis;
• Structured settlement laws;
• Structured settlement standards;
• Structured settlement annuities and settlement trusts;
• Structured settlement industry health;
• Structured settlement business models.

For prior S2KM reporting about NSSTA, ASNP, SSP and other structured settlement and settlement planning professional associations and conferences, see S2KM's structured settlement wiki.

Full post as published by Beyond Structured Settlements on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).