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 ...

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...

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Settlement Professionals Inc. (SPI) continues to use outdated "props" to support solicitation to hire the company for lucrative insurance business from plaintiff lawyers.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