Litigation

Factoring Thought Leader Suggests Ways For Factoring Industry to Sober Up

Posted on March 25, 2008
One of the young turks in the factoring industry has emerged as a thought leader. Some of the current NASP leadership should sit up and take notice of suggestions by Andrew Cravenho, of Settlement Quotes, LLC to improve the factoring...

Factoring Thought Leader Suggests Ways For Factoring Industry to Sober Up

Posted on March 25, 2008
One of the young turks in the factoring industry has emerged as a thought leader. Some of the current NASP leadership should sit up and take notice of suggestions by Andrew Cravenho, of Settlement Quotes, LLC to improve the factoring...

Structured Annuity Issuers Again Rank Well In Fortune "Most Admired" Survey

Posted on March 25, 2008
Structured settlement annuity issuers again appear in the FORTUNE list of America's Most Admired Companies for 2008. The annual FORTUNE survey has been called "the definitive report card on corporate reputations". There's nothing better than having your peers recognize you...

NASPy Head's Company Advertising Campaign Obsessed With JG Wentworth Pricing Strategy

Posted on March 24, 2008
Novation Capital, whose President Robin Marc Shapiro is also President of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP), appears to be obsessed with JG Wentworth. It is running an advertising campaign which is all about beating JG Wentworth and mentions...

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NASPy Head's Company Advertising Campaign Obsessed With JG Wentworth Pricing Strategy

Posted on March 24, 2008
Novation Capital, whose President Robin Marc Shapiro is also President of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP), appears to be obsessed with JG Wentworth. It is running an advertising campaign which is all about beating JG Wentworth and mentions...

Link to Woodbridge Investments? No Thanks!

Posted on March 22, 2008
Someone representing factoring company Woodbridge Investments, LLC sent this author an email requesting to do a link exchange (reciprocal website link) with our company website at 4structures.com, LLC. "In a message dated 03/22/08 13:46:34 Eastern Daylight Time, cpa@woodbridgeinvestments...

Structured Settlements Do Not Oscillate

Posted on March 21, 2008
Some apparently uneducated soul has posted a web page which states, in pertinent part, that "Structured settlements are essentially "oscillating" payments "prefabricated" to a consumer as a termination of a individualized trauma lawsuit". Merriam Webster dictionary defines "oscillating" and "prefabricated"...

The Okie Pokey

Posted on March 20, 2008
His admiration for the "grace" of Bill Lerach is STILLthe lead story at "Super Settlement Planning", the pulpit of Structured Settlement Services' Robert Risk II, a structured settlement broker and "tough issues tackler" out of Tulsa, OK. But what in...

Why is JG Wentworth Buying Lunch? DealFlow Media's ASNP Coverage of Misses Crucial Point

Posted on March 20, 2008
DealFlow Media quotes attorney Frank Johns rhetorical question " How do you prevent plaintiffs from falling in with a factoring company and undoing everythinng that you have helped them with?" Johns' answer is a good one, yet a significant point...

Why is JG Wentworth Buying Lunch? DealFlow Media's ASNP Coverage Misses Crucial Point

Posted on March 20, 2008
DealFlow Media drums up interest in next week's ASNP conference with attorney Frank Johns' rhetorical question " How do you prevent plaintiffs from falling in with a factoring company and undoing everything that you have helped them with?" Johns' answer...

Law Firm Lets Life Insurance Policy Lapse With Policy Loan in Excess of Basis, Not Taxable Income To Former Partner

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Washington Report, a publication of the Association of Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU) reports of a decision that will be of interested to law firms who use life insurance as part of buy/sell succession planning. The Tax Court had held...

Forge Consulting and "Structured Asse" Attempt to Promote Themselves On Wikipedia

Posted on March 19, 2008
An attempt to use Wikipedia for the advertising of Forge Consulting, LLC out of its Georgia operation has resulted in a speedy deletion pasting on February 25, 2008. Download forge_wikipedia_shows_up_on_google_search_3192008.pdf Download forgewikipedia_attempted_listing_2252008...

What is "Structured Asse"? A Factoring Spy Story

Posted on March 17, 2008
When the words "Structured Asse" come up in Your Caller ID do you pick up? Apparently Sovereign Funding Group's phone rang today with a call from "Structured Asse", although the caller answered to the name of Josh Wander. Apparently Wander...

Offspring of "James Bond Nemesis" Writes About Structured Settlements For Stone Street Capital?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Could writer Jacob Malewitz pass for the offspring of the character "Jaws" (from James Bond movie Moonraker) and "Miss Dolly"? Malewitz states on "A Writer's Eye" that he "does know the world of structured settlements". In his "Structured Settlements from...

JG Wentworth Continues to Rack Up Awards

Posted on March 17, 2008
An Austin TX bible thumper has awarded JG Wentworth, the largest member of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers, with the prestigious "Slimeball of the Month" for February 2008. According to the award sponsor... Slimeball of the Month award...

Sovereign "Crowns" Bentzen

Posted on March 17, 2008
Sovereign Financial Group offers an alternative point of view to factoring broker Bentzen Funding Solutions' latest "lead balloon" that " price is just a price - one that any self-serving individual could claim to have the best of, especially when...

What is "Structured Asse"? A Factoring Spy Story

Posted on March 17, 2008
When the words "Structured Asse" come up in Your Caller ID do you pick up? Apparently Sovereign Funding Group's phone rang today with a call from "Structured Asse", although the caller answered to the name of Josh Wander. Apparently Wander...

Offspring of "James Bond Nemesis" Writes About Structured Settlements For Stone Street Capital?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Could writer Jacob Malewitz pass for the offspring of the character "Jaws" (from James Bond movie Moonraker) and "Miss Dolly"? Malewitz states on "A Writer's Eye" that he "does know the world of structured settlements". In his "Structured Settlements from...

JG Wentworth Continues to Rack Up Awards

Posted on March 17, 2008
An Austin TX bible thumper has awarded JG Wentworth, the largest member of the National Association of Settlement Purchasers, with the prestigious "Slimeball of the Month" for February 2008. According to the award sponsor... Slimeball of the Month award...

When $100,000 Turns Into $1176 in 14 months!

Posted on March 16, 2008
The Wall Street Journal early edition is reporting that the once venerable Bear Stearns brokerage house has been sold to JP Morgan Chase for $2 a share. At its high in January 2007 the shares were priced at $170 per...

Sovereign "Crowns" Bentzen

Posted on March 16, 2008
Sovereign Financial Group offers an alternative point of view to factoring broker Bentzen Funding Solutions' latest "lead balloon" that " price is just a price - one that any self-serving individual could claim to have the best of, especially when...

Are Structured Settlements TAX-FREE?

Posted on March 15, 2008
The websites of a number of structured settlement and settlement planning firms advertise that structured settlements are "tax free". BUT Is the statement "structured settlements are tax free" a true statement? Short But True Answer: Depends on the type of...

Anyone Know Why Forge Consulting Still Perpetuates "The Lie"?

Posted on March 14, 2008
Anyone know why Forge Consulting still perpetuates the lie that it "is the first major new structured settlement firm in more than a decade"? This lie is perpetuated through advertising on its own web site and on the web sites...

NOW She Says "The Price" is Wrong? That's Just B.S.

Posted on March 14, 2008
After years of promoting price considerations in structured settlement factoring transactions to her advantage, now facing intense competition, Bentzen Funding Solutions' Rhonda Bentzen is putting a spin on "the price is right" theory. Here's what she writes today: "A price...

Bankruptcy and the $150,000 a month Athlete

Posted on March 14, 2008
London's Daily Mail reports that former Manchester United midfielder Eric Djemba-Djemba, 26 now plying his trade in Qatar, was in such dire financial straits when at Old Trafford - despite his £75,000-a-month wage - that it is alleged he relied...

Any One in Tulsa Got a Shrug For Scruggs?

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Wall Street Journal, reports today that Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy in a judicial bribery case. The surprise plea came during a hearing on pretrial matters. His trial was set to...

Pressman Settlements Corporation FINALLY Responds To Peer Pressure- Finally Licensed as Florida Insurance Agency

Posted on March 13, 2008
Despite continuously operating and advertising its insurance business in Florida for several years, Pressman Settlements Corporation has operated without a Florida insurance license. Thankfully for Floridians those days are NOW over as Florida Office of Insurance Regulation records NOW show...

Spitzer "Structured Payments" ARE NOT Structured Settlement Payments

Posted on March 13, 2008
Due to the vagaries of Internet search engines it is possible that those looking for information about structured settlement payments will come up with references to disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's payments to QAT Consulting Group, a company that...

West Virginia 4613-Hindert Commentary

Posted on March 11, 2008
While I often don't agree with him, in his commentary about the amendment and reenacted West Virginia Structured Settlement Protection Act, factoring promoter Patrick Hindert asks some poignant questions about NSSTA and the role it has taken in the factoring...

"Grace-She Covers The Blame"

Posted on March 11, 2008
My March 4, 2008 post There is No Grace In A Kick Back which responded to Robert Risk's Bill Lerach Shows Class Amidst Personal Woes (a/k/a "Bill Lerach takes it Like a Man"-part of Risk's URL for the post) has...

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