Disability Law

Structured Settlements in 2010 - 1

By Patrick Hindert

2010 promises to be an important year for the structured settlement industry.

Strategic structured settlement priorities for 2010:

• Public policy - what laws currently define structured settlement public policy and how do these laws impact:
  • 468B qualified settlement funds;
  • Non-qualified 130 structured settlements;
  • Structured settlement factoring transactions?
• Legislative reform - how will anticipated new legislation change structured settlements:
  • Health care reform;
  • Financial reform;
  • Tax reform?
• Business standards and practices - what new business standards and practices will emerge following:
  • SSP's Standards of Professional Conduct;
  • Spencer v. Hartford;
  • J.G. Wentworth bankruptcy;
  • Fresno County factoring cases and California SB 510
• Business models - who will create the most successful new business models for:
  • Structured settlement claim management;
  • Settlement consulting;
  • Structured settlement secondary market;
  • Internet-based structured settlements?

Professional association meetings - S2KM will report results from four professional association educational meetings during the first six (6) months of 2010:

• NAELA Special Needs Summit - February 25-27 in New Orleans;
• ASNP Annual Meeting - March 19-20 in Charleston, S.C.
• SSP Annual Meeting - April 27-28 in Washington, D.C.
• NSSTA Annual Meeting - May 4-6 in Washington, D.C.

For prior S2KM reports about structured settlement and settlement consulting professional associations, see S2KM's structured settlement wiki.

For S2KM's most recent strategic analysis of the structured settlement industry, see S2KM's blog post "Structured Settlements in 2009".

Full post as published by Beyond Structured Settlements on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).