Litigation

Pete Vodola of West Hartford, Connecticut's Seiger Gfeller Laurie, LLP has begun a welcome blog series covering the risks of investing in structured settlement payment rights. Before investing money one must understand the upside AND the downside, even if remote.

With more and more individual investors seeking to do what had been the province of the hedge funded and large institutional investors, like insurance companies and the applicability for solving tort victim needs also on the table, it is important that buyers representatives, buyers, attorneys and others have an appropriate level of understanding.

Vodola is an established attorney expert,  who represents life insurance companies who issue , or have issued, structured settlement annuities to assure (among other things) compliance with state structured settelment protection laws and to protect the interests of those companies in structured settlement factoring transactions. 

The first post in the series is entitled  When is a Court Order Not The Last Word? 

1. "What is not in dispute is that most structured settlement factoring transactions, since 2002, are effectuated via a court order".

2. "What is also not in dispute is that the VAST MAJORITY of court orders are the last word in the effectiveness of structured settlement factoring transactions.  Put another way, the orders remain in place, and the payments are paid in the manner spelled out in the orders".

Vodola correctly observes Wall Street Journal column from this summer may have hit a nerve, but makes an incorrect assumption about the impetus to my 3 post response.(here, here and here) and another one by Andrew Cravenho of Settlement Quotes.

My response to the Wall Street Journal article stands on its own and I encourage thoe who wish to to read the links to the posts in Vodola's article or by following the links just above.

It's important to point out another thing that is not in dispute. Vodola HAS NOT said "Don't Do It!"

Yet one does not want to be part of the corollary to the "vast majority" cited above and I look forward to Pete Vodola's upcoming series.