The best way to avoid a biased or unrepresentative sample is to select a random sample. A random sample is defined as a sample where the probability that any individual member from the population being selected as part of the sample is exactly the same as any other individual member of the populatio...

Pardon me for bastardizing a quote from Alexander Pope's appropriately titled An Essay on Criticism to launch into today's diatribe about Imperial Structured Settlements, LLC. If one can see past the sultry photograph and platitudes of its "Farrah Fawcett locked" Senior VP Deborah Benaim one can se...

Structured Settlement Information provided by RAM Funding is unreliable. RAM Funding makes the misleading statement that structured settlements provide a cash flow that is completely tax liablity free. Structured settlement payments where the periodic payments represent damages excludable under IRC ...

I have been supplied with a copy of a 2007 New York Supreme Court Queens County Opinion in Garcia, Sebastian (inf) et ano v New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (Index 26721/2000)- along with a series of other Orders which a number of settlement planners and structured settlement brokers...

Referring to yesterday's discussion of Structured Asset Funding's in-house counsel Robert Ostrov's explanation of structured settlement factoring a competitor offers the following response: "The comparison of discount rates to credit card rates is a bit absurd and seems to be a way for Mr. Ostr...

As one of the first class of candidates closing in on the Registered Settlement Planner designation I would first like to reiterate the value of this credentialing program through Texas Tech and Settlement Planners Registry Board. The second course entitled "Settlement Planning Seminar" in...

Google may be the top search engine but the oversight for its Google blog alert is in need of serious improvement for it to continue to be relevant. Today I and others received a Google Blogs Alert for "structured settlements" with these allegedly relevant stories Prophecy-Predictions for 2008 for b...

Settlement Professionals Inc. (SPI) continues to use outdated "props" to support solicitation to hire the company for lucrative insurance business from plaintiff lawyers. It has dedicated an entire page to what it calls the AIG "Smoking Gun" memo.  Here are some comments on ...

Today I'm going to discuss some common issues related to structured settlement quotes and funding which should be of importance to plaintiff attorneys, plaintiffs, insurance adjusters, defense attorneys and other interested parties or stakeholders in the structured settlement process. Let's say you ...

My friends at Pullman Comley did a nice job of reviewing a number of significant California Court decisions: In Re Derrick Cox, Case No. 08 CECG 00847 AMS, Superior Court, Fresno County California (calif. Super. Ct. May 27, 2008; and In Re Richard Shawn Caldwell Case No. 08 CECG 00186 AMC, Superior ...