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  • Structured Settlement Payments - The Who and The What
    A structured settlement is a series of payments made over a period of time. People usually get them as a result of a lawsuit. For various reasons, people who receive these payments, sometimes wish to cash them out and get a lump sum payment. There are a ...

  • Structured Settlement – Guaranteed Income for those with Disabilities
    Up until twenty years ago, anyone who won a lawsuit as a result of a claim involving worker's compensation, wrongful death or accident had to accept a lump sum payment as their compensation. The payment would be intended to be invested, with the ...

  • Structured Settlements
    This article provides useful, detailed information about Structured Settlements. A structured settlement is an arrangement with the insurance company that involves periodic payments obtained as a substitute for release of liability. As ...

  • Structured Settlements 101: How Structured Settlements Work
    You have probably heard the term “Structured Settlement” on a television or print ad and wondered what it meant. After all, the term is not a part of our everyday lexicon. A structured settlement is a contract under which an insurance company undertakes ...

  • Structured Settlements And The Power Of Annuities
    A structured settlement is a type of financial settlement usually awarded to the victim of a personal injury accident. For example, assume a jury awards the victim damages in the sum of $4 million. Depending on the circumstances, the damages may be ...

  • Structured Settlements Annuities
    This article provides useful, detailed information about Structured Settlements Annuities. In simple words, a structured settlement annuity can be considered as a lump sum that would be paid in exchange for a periodic payment. When an ...

  • Structured Settlements Brokers
    This article provides useful, detailed information about Structured Settlements Brokers. Some companies offer their services in form of brokers or representatives who can deal with the structured settlement process. These brokers would be the ...

  • Structured Settlements Companies
    This article provides useful, detailed information about Structured Settlements Companies. There are many insurance companies that offer structured settlement annuities. However, it is important to choose the company that would be able to ...

  • Structured Settlements Offer Advantages over Lump-Sum Payments
    A structured settlement, which offers injury victims cash payments through a long-term annuity as compensation for their damages and medical expenses, offer a number of possible advantages over payment in a lump sum. While the lump sum payment is the ...

  • Structured Settlements – Should You Sell Yours?
    In recent years, it has become more common for victims of accidental injury who accept a settlement from the at-fault party to accept a structured settlement instead of a lump-sum payment. With a structured settlement, the injured party receives payments ...

  • Student Loans Can't Be Swept Away Through Bankruptcy
    Bankruptcy is in the news these days, as Congress has finally overhauled the Federal bankruptcy law after years of talking about it. The credit card companies, rightly or wrongly, have been pressuring members of Congress to tighten the bankruptcy ...

  • Take A Structured Settlement Or One-Time Lump Sum Payment?
    If you are involved with a legal decision, financial claim or insurance arrangement, the financing process to settle and resolve the claim can often take two forms. Either a one-time lump sum payment, or a long-term periodic series of deferred structured ...

  • The Lowdown On Getting Cash For A Structured Settlement Payment
    It is possible for recipients of a structured settlement payment to sell a part of the amount for a lump sum that can be used for meeting some near-term expenses. The process of transferring one's rights to a structured payment to another party for a sum ...

  • The Time Value of Money
    Life is about decisions, whether they relate to your work, business or personal life. Often ignored is the interplay between all these areas, and the fact that a little interdisciplinary thinking can go a long way. This might sound obtuse, but many ...

  • To Factor or Not to Factor?
    The purchasing of accounts receivable (invoices) is generally known as factoring. Businesses can sell their invoices to companies known as factors. Although not all businesses are familiar with factoring, historians claim that factoring dates back to the ...

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Kentucky Justice Association Suggests Strategic Capital to Members
Houston Chronicle
The Immediate Past President of Kentucky Justice Association, JT Gilbert, has written a letter to member attorneys regarding its position on selling structured settlements. Gilbert clearly states the KJA position as recommending against such sales.

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Structured Settlement Institute: Texas Courts Again Reject Imperial Finance's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A Texas court last month rejected for the fifth time Imperial's anti-consumer attempts to prohibit customers from selling their structured settlements to persons other than Imperial. Imperial sought to prohibit its customers from receiving competitive ...

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Transamerica Violates Annuity Exemption In Texas
MarketWatch (press release)
A lawsuit in Texas has accused Transamerica Life Insurance Company of violating Texas law exempting annuity benefits, reports the Structured Settlement Institute. In the suit (Cause No. 2011-05238, FinServ Casualty Corp. and Capstone Associated ...

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JG Wentworth Sued For Deceptive Trade Practices
Sacramento Bee
By Structured Settlement Institute BOCA RATON, Fla., May 17, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- JG Wentworth parent JGWPT Holdings has been accused of engaging in widespread deceptive trade practices in a recently filed lawsuit.

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Bypass Student Loans: Use a Structured Settlement for College Tuition Payments
CisionWire (press release)
But you have options if you have an annuity or structured settlement to cash out for education costs. Using a structured settlement process to pay tuition involves taking advantage of existing assets to avoid debt, and it's a smart way to get around ...

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