July 26, 2010
The Wall Street Journal on Friday, July 23, 2010 published an article titled “Another Can’t-Miss Deal That Can Miss Spectacularly“.
This article is inaccurate and misleading on a number of accounts.
Firstly, our Group has transacted over $350 million in these types of payments with zero defaults.
Secondly, the liquidity risk that is mentioned in the article is a risk common to many investment insurance annuities and is not unique to annuities purchased on the secondary market. It is a risk that is fully disclosed in our Group’s Buyers Guide that is given to all prospective buyers. Buyers accept this risk because the guaranteed nature of the investment with significantly superior fixed rates of return are worth it. The investments are designed as long-term holds and should not be purchased for short term strategies. For example, they qualify for IRA plans.
July 18, 2010
For the past three years North Carolina Structured Settlement Recipients have been unable to sell the rights to their structured settlement payments because of a change in the North Carolina Structured Settlement Protection Act. Throughout these years many annuitants came to us with tragic circumstances where we normally would be able to help them create liquidity by cashing out their structured settlement, but because of this new law we were unable to help them.
Below is the section of the North Carolina Structured Settlement Protection Act which has not allowed most North Carolina structured settlement recipients to sell their payments since enacted:
July 17, 2010
It has come to this author’s attention that Clearscape Funding, a Symetra subsidiary is badgering structured settlement recipients to sell the rights to their future payments. It appears that this company is increasing it’s efforts to buy back it’s own paper at rates much higher than the industry average.
In the past week, Settlement Quotes LLC has competed on three separate cases where Clearscape Funding has offered the annuitant discount rates between 10-14% as opposed to Settlement Quotes offering rates between 7.7- 10%.
June 24, 2010
It has come to our attention that a rumor being spread by a competitor that could affect your choice when choosing a company to work with when cashing out a structured settlement. The false rumor being spread states that certain companies provide extremely competitive quotes as a loss leader on a transaction in order to secure future deals from that particular annuitant from vastly higher discount rates to make up for any loss occurred in the original transaction.
March 29, 2010
Do you ever wonder how structured settlement factoring companies pay for commercials that air all day and all night? I bet Heather Sutton, a 23 year old woman from East Bangor, Pennsylvania could tell you. Heather sold a $150,000 payment due in 2024 to Peachtree Settlement Funding for a one time lump sum payment of $11,000. Settlement Quotes could purchase this same payment for $43,000. Unfortunately for Heather she didn’t contact Settlement Quotes.
February 21, 2010
In this video, Andrew Cravenho, President of the Settlement Quotes, LLC Structured Settlement Factoring Exchange is interviewed by John Darer of the Legal Broadcast Network. Viewers can learn how a Structured Settlement Factoring Exchange is a viable option to use when selling structured settlement payment rights.
November 13, 2009
What in the world is going on with Structured Asset Funding. After observing the saga of the Connecticut woman in this article, one would think that the folks over at Structured Asset Funding (123 Lump Sum or FundingCash.com) would finally get their act together. Well apparently not!
May 19, 2009
Today, JG Wentworth announced that three of its non-operating parent holding company level affiliates – JGW Holdco, LLC, J.G. Wentworth LLC, and J.G. Wentworth, Inc., — have filed a voluntary reorganization plan under Chapter 11 of the U. S. Bankruptcy Code in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
December 14, 2008
Stone Street Capital, a structured settlement factoring company located out of Bethesda Maryland recently created a blog to “facilitate open communication.” There has been much controversy over Stone Street’s advertising practices of late and this author hopes that Stone Street would be willing to communicate to both the primary and secondary markets on why they continue to use such terms as “cash now” in their advertising.
November 7, 2008
Settlement Quotes strives to make our blog entries current. Yesterday this author published an article “JG Wentworth Loses Satisfactory Rating From the BBB,” in the article this author discusses how JG Wentworth has had their satisfactory rating removed from their Better Business Bureau profile.
Within a period of 12 hours, JG Wentworth’s rating went from unsatisfactory to satisfactory. J.G Wentworth’s BBB profile was under review for a three week period throughout September. Once their profile came back online on October 3rd, 2008 their profile was stripped of the satisfactory rating.
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