"A “buy and hold� case within a structured settlement package is one in your insurer buys and (sic) annuity in a bid to deal with your demands. This is so that they don’t have to be burdened with the responsibility of seeking you out when they have to make payments, at the same time feeing (si...

"Once this agreement is made,  (Step 1) the defendant funds a stream of payments to the plaintiff, according to specific needs. In most cases,  (Step 2) the defendant then transfers the responsibility to a "qualified assignment," which (Step 3) funds the damage payments with an annuity".  FAQ onÂ...

This UK based shill for Prosperity Partners has written "The Truth About Structured Settlement Awards". Her Linked In profile shows all sorts of interesting things including the unfortunate proof that Julie-Ann Amos has no bona fides on the subject of structured settlements. Factoring company Prospe...

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...

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...

Samantha Jackson purports to be an expert on wrinkle creams. Do wrinkle creams have anything to do with structured settlements? Samantha's "Why Most  Cream For  Wrinkles Doesn't Work" on "feelingwow.com" is one of the latest in a blitz of irrelevant Google Blog alerts that purport to be about stru...

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...

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 ...

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 ...