Yet again a cash now pusher has tried to factor a structured settlement annuity owned by the United States of America and someone has pissed on its leg. This time it's the United States District Court for the District of Kansas ordering summary judgment for the United States on March 10, 2009 in an ...

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...

Brutally honest (cough cough) Michelle Hsu of cash now pusher Stone Street Capital (yeah, the folks whose mascot is a blue Teletubby like cow) says she's looking for a needle in a haystack.   "People who receive a structured settlement are a very small portion of the total population.  On top of t...

You've got to love it when your message gets a stirring response. As you can see from the web pages of certified cash flow consulting office SSE Funding, there appears the beginnings of a recoil by  some members of the factoring industry against the unethical and sometimes fraudulent practices of o...

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...

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 the Matter of Medina New York Supreme Court Bronx County 260363/08 decided December 12, 2008 Justice Alexander W. Hunter, Jr. has denied a structured settlement factoring transaction because he could not "state with reasonable certainty whether or not the transaction is in the best interest ...

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...

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...