Category Archives: Structured Settlements
IF YOU ARE A SELLING A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT – YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
IF YOU ARE A SELLING A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT – YOU NEED TO READ THIS! Regardless of how simple the TV commercials and web-ads make it sound, any sale of a structured settlement requires Court Approval! What this means is that if you are thinking of a s…
The Maryland Structured Settlement Protection Act
The Maryland Structured Settlement Protection Statute MARYLAND CODE COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS Current through 2001 § 5-1101.(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) “Discounted present value” means the fair present value of future payments, as determined by discounting payments to the present using the most recently published applicable federal rate for determining the present value of an annuity, as issued by the United States Internal Revenue Service. (c) “Independent professional advice” means advice of an attorney, certified public accountant, actuary, or other licensed professional adviser: (1) Who is engaged by a payee to render advice […]
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Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment
Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment Rights Compliance to Contract Writing is the Responsibility of the Transfer Company The California Insurance Code puts the onus on the transfer company to get all of the contracts right. The Insurance Cod…
Structured Settlement Lawyer Review
Structured Settlement Lawyer 800.200.4384 In this article Earl Nesbitt, which I have had the pleasure of meeting and discussing the structured settlement industry with. He has carefully dissected in a basic terms way the problems of the Maryland structured settlement transfer court procedure. The structured settlement protection act in Maryland already states; 5-1101(c) Independent professional advice.–“Independent professional advice means advice of an attorney, certified publi […]
Buying Structured Settlements
Buying Structured Settlements Buying of structured settlements in the secondary market has been a booming business that has until of late been relatively a top-secret need to know topic. What are you buying? Well, you are buying a future payment stream. usually as an award of the court for some sort of personal injury settlement. Where the settlement was invested in an annuity to provide for a larger payment over time. Now you aren’t buying the payments at face value, in fact; the IRS has a calculation that is used to figure out what that future payment is valued at […]
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Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment
Block 16.3 Article 2.3 Transfers of Structured Settlement Payment Rights Reporting to the OAG: To Review or Not Review: Does the OAG Take a Look at Each Transfer Agreement? 10139(b) says “no”. 10139(b) states, “The Attorney General may, but is not required to, review any transfer agreement in order to ensure that the transfer meets the requirements of this article.” (You can view this “article” (10139(b)) here: https://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/INS/1/d2/2/1/2.3/s10139 a Thomson Reuters website that was last updated Nov. 13, 2013 at 1:08 p.m. PST.) The code is short, and so is this article. It’s straight forward. 10139(b) […]
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