Litigation

A Society of Settlement Planners Board member needs to get their facts straight. Based on what appears on the Settlement Professionals Inc. website today, former SSP President Jack Meligan, gifted settlement planner from Oregon, a yellow highlighter "black belt", could never be confused for someone who actual read the two legal cases that he cites,and uses, in an attempt scare plaintiff attorneys into doing business.

In Macomber v. Travelers Property & Casualty Corp. and Lyons v. Medical Malpractice Insurance Assoc., plaintiff attorneys have been sued for the harm sustained by their clients at the hands of the defense-provided structured settlement brokers.

• No plaintiff attorneys were named Defendants in the lawsuit captioned Macomber v Travelers Property & Casualty Corp.

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• Meligan's "analysis" of Lyons v MMIA is a bit simplistic, just like his affiliate Bill Tilley's chestnut from September 2009 (see below)
  

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Bill Tilley Dishes Out "Old Rag" on Settlement Planning Blog

The settlement profession has evolved over the years. It is important for plaintiff attorneys and their clients to have someone who is qualified, and that they feel comfortable with, to advise them on settlement planning and transitional financial planning issues. That being said there's no excuse for the likes of Settlement Professionals Inc. or anyone else to promote themselves using unreasonable scare tactics, such as citing facts that don't exist.