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Structured Settlement Servicing By Factoring Companies Redux

By John Darer

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Settlement Capital's Matt Bracy aired the the 2nd in a two part series "The Problem With Factoring" on the Legal Broadcast Network (LBN) and does an excellent job addressing the subject of servicing of structured settlement payments by factoring companies. This author, John Darer aired a 2 part series on the subject of factoring company servicing of structured settlement payments last Fall on LBN.

Key points

  1. Servicing is a chore for factoring companies caused ostensibly by the unwillingness of SOME structured annuity insurance companies to split payments when the annuitant is not selling of their structured settlement payment rights. The end result that plaintiff attorneys and structured settlement brokers must know is that as a result of some of the annuity issuer unwillingness to split, their clients WILL NOT BE RECEIVING THEIR PAYMENTS DIRECTLY FROM THE ANNUITY COMPANY ANYMORE. They will be dealing with the factoring company.
  2. Many state structured settlement protection laws essentially state that the annuity issuer cannot be forced to split the payments.
  3. Bracy acknowledges the validity of the question I've raised and states that while the solvency of the factoring company may still result in the annuitant ULTIMATELY getting their payments,, there "SURELY WILL BE A DELAY" and THERE MAY BE COSTS INVOLVED to the annuitant. This is the same conclusion that Texas lawyer Bruce Akerly and I reached last Fall.
  4. Bracy states that some, but not all companies have back up servicers. His does.
  5. Bracy states the good news is that there has yet to be an insolvency. The same perhaps could be said of structured settlement issuing companies prior to 1991. We all now know the effect of Executive Life. Sufficed to say that many of the insurance companies issuing the annuities have billions more assets than any of the factoring companies.
  6. Sellers of structured settlement payment rights should be looking closely at the documents. Common sense. (1) Beware of attempts to bind you into a right of first refusal to the servicing factoring company (2) Check for any fees charged for the servicing (3) Check for back up servicing (or bonded 3rd party servicers as suggested by Andrew Cravenho)
  7. In a nod to John Darer's relentless attack on what is in his opinion the slimy business practice of Structured Asset Funding, LLC suggesting that fancy sports cars and boats are a reason to sell structured settlement payment rights, interviewer Scott Drake questions the ethics of such practice (for a giggle watch Bracy's startled facial expression). Bracy emphasizes that each structured settlement factoring transaction requires court approval and he doesn't believe that anyone would have the guts to go to a Court approval using a boat or fancy sports car as part of the "best interest" prove up. Coincidentally Structured Asset Funding's website has been disabled at the time of this writing. Stay tuned!

  

 

View "The Problem With Factoring 2-Servicing"

View Structured Settlement Servicing Agreements-Good Or Bad  Part 1 Oct. 2009


View Structured Settlement Servicing Agreements-Good Or Bad For Annuitant? Part 2 (with Bankruptcy Expert Bruce Akerly) October 2009



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Full post as published by Structured Settlements 4Real on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).

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