Litigation

Spencer v. Hartford - 3
Spencer v. Hartford is a class action civil lawsuit potentially involving more than 9000 plaintiffs who received structured settlement annuities from Hartford insurance subsidiaries...

Spencer v. Hartford - 9
If you are re-thinking structured settlement business practices in the context of the Spencer v. Hartford class action lawsuit and announced proposed settlement, a recent paper ("Structured Settlements and Single Claimant Qualified Settlement Funds: Regulating in Accordance with Structured Settlement...

Spencer v. Hartford - 8
If YOU are a defendant (or insure or represent defendants), how do YOU save money using structured settlements - post Spencer v. Hartford? What are your structured settlement risks - if you don't fully disclose your structured settlement business practices?...

Structured Settlement Credo - 4
Continuing S2KM commentary about structured settlement credo. What impact, if any, will President Obama's national call for change and his repudiation of ideological certainties have upon the traditional (claim management) structured settlement industry? As new structured settlement leaders emerge and...

Spencer v. Hartford - 5
Hartford Financial Insurance Group announced today it has reached an agreement in principle to settle the Spencer v. Hartford class action structured settlement lawsuit resulting in a $47 million after-tax charge contingent upon court approval...

Spencer v. Hartford - 4
During the recent NASP 2009 Annual Meeting, a panel of primary and secondary market experts identified the civil RICO allegations in the Spencer v. Hartford class action lawsuit as a textbook example of some of the worst structured settlement business...

Growing the Structured Settlement Market
For the past several years, the structured settlement industry has experienced significant change without any significant overall growth of annual annuity premium. Several structured settlement annuity providers (Aegon, Genworth, Travelers, and Transamerica among others) have left the structured settlement market...

AIG Structured Settlement Wiki
AIG developments of interest and importance to structured settlement stakeholders are continuing on a daily basis. For structured settlement stakeholders who are attempting to monitor AIG developments, S2KM has created and continues to update this AIG Structured Settlement Wiki including...

Pullman & Comley's Structured Settlement Insights-2
Pullman & Comley's Summer 2008 edition of its "Structured Settlement Insights" summarizes three recent and significant developments impacting the structured settlement secondary market: Two Fresno County, California Superior Court decisions finding violations of the California Structured Settlement Protection Act (SSPA)...

Structured Settlement Credo - 5
S2KM's continuing commentary about traditional structured settlement credo. In prior blog posts, S2KM identified traditional structured settlement credo and highlighted its importance...

Hartford Class Action Settlement of $72.5M Approved
$72.5M Hartford Settlement Approved

Virgin Atlantic Flight
Makes Emergency Landing

Hartford Insurance
Faces Class Action

Hartford Village
Could See $1 Million Settlement in Environmental Suit

Treasurer Embezzlement
Mary Lou Puccio repays Warren Cheer and Pom Program $26,000 after stealing money.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.