Following what has become an unfortunate tradition of promoting structured settlement "one hit wonders" such as Professor Adam Scales, the Society of Settlement Planners has delved even deeper into the bowels of industry history to fete Kevin A. Mack, a former officer of the Travelers Property &a...

Doing his job to "help elevate the profession" a New York based settlement planner having been duly sworn and deposed recently said:  " A traditional structured settlement is the only mechanism that prevents a minor from cashing in on the entire settlement upon reaching age of majority " according ...

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...

It has come to this author's attention that there are one or two structured settlement brokers, settlement planners who have told one of our sources that they will "turn it over to their lawyers" IF they lose any business over the Matter of Honor Project. Factoring broker Rhonda Bentzen, of Bentzen ...

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...

Settlement Professionals Inc. (SPI) continues to use outdated "props" to support solicitation to hire the company for lucrative insurance business from plaintiff lawyers.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 ...

A member of the bar and a settlement planner has claimed in advertising legal and insurance services that he is "board certified" by the National Structured Settlement Trade Association and  that "he earned his "board certification " and the designation of Certified Str...

An attempt to use Wikipedia for the advertising of Forge Consulting, LLC out of its Georgia operation has resulted in a speedy deletion pasting on February 25, 2008. The rules of Wikipedia cite that certain articles are candidates for "speedy deletion". In this case: "An article about a real person,...

The Deal Flow media headline and teaser reads: "Factoring Companies Take Heat For Referral Fees Factoring companies offering referral fees to structured settlement consultants may not be violating any state insurance laws. But whether or not the practice is ethical is an argument that has divid...

The astounding thing about the Rhonda Bentzen meltdown is that since December 1, 2007 she has written a total of 16 blog posts and 13 of them , or 81.25% are directly about me, or have something to do with me. On the other hand I have written 134 or so posts during that time and only 9 or so, 6.7% h...