In this episode of Settlement Nation I chat with James DeSimone, the founder of V. James DeSimone Law. James is one of the most highly regarded employment lawyers and civil rights advocates in Los Angeles, successfully achieving multi-million ...
Settlement Planning
Judges and mediators play important, but distinctive, roles in settlement planning. So it may have surprised some attendees that ...
If you market yourself as a “settlement planner”, or even consider yourself a “settlement planner”, how do you define “settlement ...
Knowledge Network
During its three-day 2021 Annual Conference in late February, the Society of Settlement Planners (SSP) hosted 20 separate virtual ...
During a discussion of “Life Company Basics” featured as part of the recent Society of Settlement Planners (SSP) virtual 2021 ...
Industry News
Plaintiff attorneys are continuing to gain an understanding of the benefits of structuring their attorney fees, a unique tool, ...
Industry News
Continuing a series of articles previewing selected topics at the upcoming Society of Settlement Planners’ (SSP’s) virtual 2021 ...
Knowledge Network
Every structured settlement professional is familiar with the term “substandard age rating” as well as the important role more ...
ABLE Accounts
Since The ABLE Act created IRC 529A in 2014, 49 states have passed legislation to implement ABLE and ABLE accounts have become ...
ABLE Accounts
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published final regulations that provide guidance regarding programs under the Stephen ...
Since it was first published in 1986, "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" (S2P2J), has provided structured ...
Legs & Regs
Perhaps it is not surprising, for a business that results from personal injury claims and lawsuits, that sometimes participants ...
Legs & Regs
Historically, most investors who purchase structured settlement payment rights from factoring companies are sophisticated ...
Non-Qualified
The number of exonerations for wrongfully incarcerated individuals has increased for the third year in a row, according to The ...
Legs & Regs
When a person recovers money for a tort injury committed by another person, an historic source of exclusion of that recovery from ...
Knowledge Network
Every structured settlement and settlement planning professional is presumably well-familiar with the Internal Revenue Code ...
Knowledge Network
Since The ABLE Act created IRC 529A in 2014, ABLE accounts have become popular financial and settlement planning tools for ...
Attorney Resources
The Christina Grillo medical malpractice case reached a $2,500,000 settlement in Texas in 1990 – thirty years ago. Why is the ...
Knowledge Network
In retrospect, the failure of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) to support the Uniform Periodic ...
Knowledge Network
For the vast majority of the 300 plus members of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) who attended the ...
Knowledge Network
How different might the structured settlement market be today if the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) had ...
Knowledge Network
When a personal injury case involves a minor, structured settlements are frequently considered the best choice for a settlement ...
Knowledge Network
Since it was first published in 1986, "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" (S2P2J), has provided structured ...
Industry News
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has recently voted to update its Suitability in Annuity Transactions ...
Knowledge Network
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has published updated Program Operation Manual System (POMS) guidance for Achieving a ...
Knowledge Network
IRC 468B Qualified Settlement Funds (QSFs) provide plaintiff attorneys and their clients with important advantages as a ...
Knowledge Network
This is the second article (Part II) in a four part series of articles that explore the timeline of historical developments that ...
Knowledge Network
This is the fourth and final article (Part IV) in a four part series of articles that explore the timeline of historical ...
Knowledge Network
This is the third article (Part III) in a four part series of articles that explore the timeline of historical developments that ...
Knowledge Network
This is the introduction and part I for a timeline of historical developments that highlight key events for the structured ...
Knowledge Network
Since it was first published in 1986, "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" (S2P2J), has provided structured ...
The Mraz Case
Author Patrick Hindert recently spoke with Mark Wahlstrom on the Speaking of Justice podcast regarding this case, listen to the ...
Although the stakeholders within the structured settlement market traditionally have focused primarily on A.M. Best when ...
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