January 8, 2014 – Most people who accept structured settlements when settling their personal, physical injury claims are not repeat customers. After all, most people never file significant injury claims in the first place let alone doing so on multiple occasions. And since our involvement with a client typically ends once a policy is issued…
January 7, 2014 – Some seemingly sensible retirement planning ideas just don’t hold water when scrutinized. Take Jane Bryant Quinn’s article, “Don’t Be Too Cautious,” appearing in this month’s AARP Bulletin for instance. While the underlying premise of her article – allocating one’s retirement funds into a series of “buckets” designed to maximize retirement cash…
January 6, 2014 – Structured settlements were created to specifically help address the long term financial needs of those settling personal, physical injury claims. Because injury settlement proceeds represent neither savings nor investment dollars, comparing their returns to other “investments” can be a dangerous method of evaluating their imporatance to someone who can’t risk losing…
December 31, 2013 – According to the recently published Fidelity 2014 New Year Financial Resolutions Study, 54% of you are making financial resolutions for the coming year. While we can’t help you save more, spend less or pay down debt – the top three financial resolutions cited in the study – there are two specific…
December 23, 2013 – It’s always nice to read something that gives you reason for optimism as you prepare to change calendars and head into a new year. An article in today’s InvestmentNews caught our eye because it predicts 2014 could “be a big one” for a certain financial option near and dear to our…
December 5, 2013 – If you’re among the lucky ones, you had some retirement money saved up in your 401(k) or IRA in 2008, lost a bunch of it in the ensuing Great Recession years, gutted it out through 2013 and now have recovered most, if not all, of the wealth you originally watched evaporate….
November 20, 2013 – It’s too bad Las Vegas isn’t taking bets on this hypothetical match-up: Structured settlements vs. stocks. I’m not much of a gambler myself but if I were and they were, I’d put a whole lot of money on structured settlements coming out on top. And if yesterday’s CNNMoney article, “Welcome to…
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November 13, 2013 – Rumors began circulating this afternoon that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $4.0 billion products liability settlement to end the litigation of more than 7,500 pending lawsuits in state and federal courts, alleging metal-on-metal artificial hips, manufactured be subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, were defective. If this turns out to be true…
October 25, 2013 – In just about eight more weeks, the 2013 calendar will be ready for the recycle bin. For contingency fee-based plaintiff attorneys who’ve had a successful year, recycling one of the best-ever tax deferral strategies is also on their minds as 2013 winds down: Structured Attorney Fees. Since the passage of the…