Settlement Quotes, LLC's Andrew Cravenho's February 24, 2009 post will be of interest to Attorneys General and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Cravenho describes several recent instances consumers have written to him describing a process from JG Wentworth, Stone Street Capital and Seneca One tha...

Certified Structured Settlement Consultant is a professional designation offered by the National Structured Settlements Trade Association to its members through the Executive program at the University of Notre Dame since 1994. It DOES NOT involve matriculation at the University of Notre Dame. The pr...

Evidence continues to mount that a segment of the structured settlement industry, led by former NSSTA Executive Director Patrick Hindert IS teaming up with the cash now pushers. First, Patrick Hindert has long yakked that the growth of the structured settlement industry is through the factoring indu...

Factoring heavyweight Rhonda Bentzen continues an obsession with this author with "The List" published January 6, 2009 It is evident that Ms. Bentzen has not taken the time to read the FAQ about the Structured Settlement Transparency initiative, because if she did it would be crystal clear that it ...

In 1999 The Hartford produced some point of sales pieces for appointed structured settlement annuity brokers to use to compete with alternatives to structured annuities such as bank trusts, CDs, variable annuities and US Treasuries.  The passage of time has rendered some of the key points of these...

Nerve thinks that magazines should stop falsely advertising photos as nude when the good bits are clearly covered up. Funny, we feel like we've heard that argument somewhere else, too. (nerve.com)...

These firms currently falsely advertise "cash now" for structured settlements when they are fully aware that the process  is not instantaneous as their promotion implies:  J.G. Wentworth (including subsdiaries and alter egos FS Gerard, 321 Henderson) Peachtree Settlement Funding Woodbridge Inves...

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...

The News Courier reports Charter Cable ran an online contest asking kids to submit stories about why their dad was the "World's Greatest Dad," and the winner was supposed to get a 65-inch TV...instead, a 19-inch one showed up on his doorstep. Is this any way to treat The World's Greatest Dad? UPDATE...

Trouble in the factoring 'hood! Cash Now Pusher Woodbridge Investments has apparently hired a little pay per post hottie named Carlyn Sierra to profit from Cash Now Pusher J.G. Wentworth's trade name. In its latest exhibit of cheese and sleaze the hotties post entitled "J.G. Wentworth" states "If yo...