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...

"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...

Patrick Hindert minces words today over settlement consulting and settlement planning and introduces us to the "Hedwig Pindork" 4 syllable Big Word of the Day  "Folksonomy". Wasn't Folksonomy Plaza the LA office tower that got shot up in Die Hard? Or was it the new roll they introduced at Nobu? Odd...

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...

Robert W. Wood has written a new legal treatise "Qualified Settlement Funds and Section 468B" published by the Tax Institute and available for purchase on the Tax Institute website. Following S2KM's earlier review of Wood's book, the noted author and tax expert provided S2KM with t...