Litigation

"And NOW For Something Completely Different" For Cost Cutting Insurance Companies To Save Money

Posted on April 19, 2009
Perhaps insurance companies can learn something from this "Nugget" about paper making industry town of Burnie, Tasmania which has taken to making paper out of wombat's poo. Yes, according to an April 18, 2009 report by the BBC these innovative...

Financial Literacy Lesson For Children- Really "Living It Up" in a Garden Variety Depression

Posted on April 19, 2009
What values are we teaching our children during what Jim Cramer calls the "garden variety depression"? I received a call this morning from a $75,000/year single mother of a 16 year old who called me because I have traveling experience....

Bentzen Funding Solutions, Structured Asset Funding...More Questions Arise

Posted on April 17, 2009
Inspired by the story covered in the preceding post, this author has begun a state by state investigation to learn if Bentzen Funding Solutions and Structured Asset Funding have registered in states where this author has information and/or reason to....

Maybe There Isn't "a Sucker Born Every Minute"

Posted on April 14, 2009
I was pleased to read in yesterday's New York Post that the bids for the rights to the story of Dana Giacchetto were only fetching $5,000 on EBay. Who the heck is Dana Giacchetto you say? He's merely the social...

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S2KM Content Syndicated on Purchase Structured Settlement Blog

Posted on April 14, 2009
S2KM's blog post about the NSSTA Winter Regional Meeting has apparently been syndicated on the Purchase Structured Settlements blog. On the same blog you can find ads for Patrick Swayze's secrets, PIcs of beautiful women, Danica Patrick's Bikini Pictures and...

The Structured Settlement Illiterate Tip of The Day "featuring" Stan Johnson

Posted on April 14, 2009
Self back slap happy writer Stan Johnson on "Better Structured Settlement (Dot) Com" has essentially hung himself up in "Not Everything You Read About A Structured Settlement is True" Stan Johnson states "Like only few writers out there, Stan Johnson...

Bentzen Funding Solutions Not Paying For Factoring Deals On Time?

Posted on April 14, 2009
Back in September 2008 Rhonda Bentzen boasted that it was "business as usual" and assured everyone in a blog post that she has now taken down that Bentzen Funding Solutions was purchasing AIG annuities. My how times have changed and...

Settlements for Children... Bank Accounts Should Track Old FDIC limits of $100,000 NOT $250,000!

Posted on April 13, 2009
Reminder to Judges and Plaintiff Lawyers when considering placing a portion of a minor's settlement proceeds in a bank, the current FDIC limits of $250,000 are temporary and expire December 31, 2009. They cannot be relied upon long term. Track...

Is FDIC Really Backed By The Government?

Posted on April 12, 2009
The Abilene Reporter News has an interesting article in today's local business section (thanks to the Internet its "local" to me in Stamford, CT) which discusses the impending rate increase by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and gives an...

I-35W Bridge Collapse...Now "Holden" Just a Minute!

Posted on April 12, 2009
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's Jim Foti reports on the task faced by the Special Master panel of lawyers to fairly allocate slices of the fund created by the Minnesota State Legislature to compensate survivors of the I-35W Bridge Collapse...

Stone Street Capital's Shame About "Factoring"

Posted on April 11, 2009
Stone Street Capital's Michelle (Determan) Hsu would have you believe that the Internal Revenue Code is not correct and that the word "factoring" is not appropriate to describe what "The Stoners" do for a living. Hsu makes these statements (among...

FINALLY Factoring Companies Begin to Turn On "Cash Now" Reprobates in Their Ranks

Posted on April 11, 2009
Prosperity Partners is using its blog network to attack what we have been attacking all along, the false claims of cash now made by certain factoring companies. "There?s a great push going on these days to expose structured settlement (factoring)...

New York City Attorneys Should Be Structuring Attorney Fees To Mitigate Tax Bite

Posted on April 11, 2009
New York is the Tax Capital of The World according to the Wall Street Journal which said: "In New York, Assembly Speaker (and de facto Governor) Sheldon Silver and other Democrats will impose a two percentage point "millionaire tax" on...

Liberty Life Assurance of Boston Affirmed at "A" (Excellent) by AM Best.

Posted on April 11, 2009
While affirming the A (Excellent) rating on the Liberty Mutual Group the outlook has been changed from stable to negative effective April 9, 2009. Specific to Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, a structured settlement annuity issuer, A.M. Best said...

Tax Increase is Gilded Lily For Structured Settlement Value

Posted on April 09, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that "at least 10 states are considering some kind of major increase in sales or income taxes, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. California and New York lawmakers...

Woodbridge Investments Business Down 45% from 2008

Posted on April 09, 2009
"Although the demand is there from customers seeking to sell their structured settlement payments, the present financial condition of the insurance companies and downgrading of their bond and credit ratings has caused rates to rise making the purchase of stuctured...

"Hedwig" and The Angry Inch-10

Posted on April 08, 2009
Patrick Hindert's pedantic demagoguery is predictably revived in his latest blog post in which he cites an NSSTA Member on the NSSTA Code of Ethics. Virtually silent for years on to name a few (1) the "underground railroad" of factoring...

Few Structured Settlement Companies Use The Web To Their Advantage

Posted on April 08, 2009
4structures.com, LLC continues to dominate the unique visitors to structured settlement industry websites, according to an anlaysis of Compete.com data for March 2009. The industry itself improved on last month with an average of 1,284 unique visitors...

Willy Exposed

Posted on April 08, 2009
"Will" on cash now pusher Stone Street Capital's blog "finds it interesting that there are such vocal opponents of the factoring industry when they are filling an absolute need for structured settlement recipients". He states "The reality is that the...

Structured Settlement Quote Form Is A Matter of Literacy and Security

Posted on April 07, 2009
Both of the following terms have their origins in the Middle English of the 12th-13th century but have distinctly different meanings. Council 1: an assembly or meeting for consultation, advice, or discussion2: a group elected or appointed as an advisory...

How Structured Settlement Works Useful Structured Settlement Flow Chart

Posted on April 07, 2009
4structures.com, LLC has introduced a structured settlement flow chart which helps explains how a structured settlement works when a structured settlement is funded with one or more structured annuities. Click To Open How Structured Settlement Works Flow Chart The flow...

Structured Settlement Industry and National Financial Literacy Month

Posted on April 06, 2009
As financial literacy month enters its second week a paraphrase of words about a child and a nation, uttered almost half a century ago by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, still rings true: "A" plaintiff or attorney or judge "miseducated is...

"Cash Settlements Now" Bull Sharks in The Water Circling Your Clients

Posted on April 05, 2009
Look out now but some "loan sharks" are now calling what they do "cash settlements". A website at www.cashsettlementsnow (dot)com** The black dorsal fin belongs to the cowards who own the website but have used a private registration on Godaddy.com....

Readers of Structured Settlements 4Real Blog Get Discounts on Legal Texts From Aspen Publishers

Posted on April 04, 2009
Readers of Structured Settlements 4Real can now qualify for discounts on legal texts from Aspen Publishers. Discounts are available through 12/31/2009. Simply scroll down and follow the appropriate link at the bottom of the left column of this blog.

Structured Settlements 4Real in Top 100 of Legal Blogs March 2009

Posted on April 04, 2009
Structured Settlements 4Real is again in the Top 100 of Legal Blogs in Avvo.com's monthly survey of 300 legal subject blogs for March 2009

My Responsibility or Yours? (a/k/a I'm Not Your Mama!)

Posted on April 04, 2009
From time to time I receive an email from someone or on behalf of someone who has appeared in this forum having been highlighted for a specific alleged behavior. While the majority of such contact is favorable on occasion I...

Readers of Structured Settlements 4Real Blog Get Discounts on Legal Texts From Aspen Publishers

Posted on April 04, 2009
Readers of Structured Settlements 4Real can now qualify for discounts on legal texts from Aspen Publishers. Discounts are available through 12/31/2009. Simply scroll down and follow the appropriate link at the bottom of the left column of this blog.

Structured Settlements 4Real in Top 100 of Legal Blogs March 2009

Posted on April 04, 2009
Structured Settlements 4Real is again in the Top 100 of Legal Blogs in Avvo.com's monthly survey of 300 legal subject blogs for March 2009

My Responsibility or Yours? (a/k/a I'm Not Your Mama!)

Posted on April 04, 2009
From time to time I receive an email from someone or on behalf of someone who has appeared in this forum having been highlighted for a specific alleged behavior. While the majority of such contact is favorable on occasion I...

Tasteless Ignorants Advocate Capital Crimes in Face of Binghamton Tragedy

Posted on April 03, 2009
The tragic news today that at least twelve people are dead after a gunman went on a shooting spree inside the American Civic Center in Binghamton for the most part has been met with the outpouring of humanity, but some...

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