Bloomberg: Nevada Claims Settling for About $200,000 Apiece August 21, 2012 – Early this morning, reports surfaced citing unnamed sources about Johnson & Johnson’s agreement to resolve three DePuy artificial hip lawsuits. If confirmed, these will be the first known DePuy settlements to occur. This news comes less than a week shy of the two-year…
Tax Advantage Still Favors Structured Settlement (Maybe) August 16, 2012 – Two days ago, with a headline that couldn’t have been more blunt, Bloomberg News reported that the 5-Year CD fell below 1% for the first time ever. While you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone championing this sobering report, it’s important to keep this news…
New FREE Webinar Series Announced As part of our firm’s ongoing commitment to helping clients meet their long-term financial security needs, we are beginning to convert many of the popular lectures and seminars we’ve given over the years into a format that will make them more accessible to all. Keep your eye on the Finn…
Guaranteed Income Solutions Appropriate for Most Regular readers of our blog will notice a few recurring themes in our posts when it comes to retirement planning and post-settlement planning: Protecting yourself from the risk of outliving your money is wise Slow and steady wins the race Things that look too good to be true usually…
Annuities Sometimes it’s just fun to find new ways to talk about annuities. (Get it? A-new-at-ease?) A few days ago, MONEY senior editor Walter Updegrave dispensed some helpful advice to a 55-year old woman worried about protecting her nest egg now that she’s ten years away from retirement in his column “55 and scared: ‘How…
Dog Bite Claims Costs Increase 16% in 2011 to $479 Million Despite the best intentions of National Dog Bite Prevention Week which occurs the third week of May every year, statistics reveal that the cost of claims for dog bites increased from a year earlier according to estimates from the Insurance Information Institute. The average…
This, according to Motley Fool contributor Sarah E. Wright in her column today entitled “4 Stocks Proving That Regulation Matters.” Ms. Wright goes on to describe the 501(k) process which enables medical device manufacturers like DePuy to win approval for new products by simply claiming they are not materially different from existing approved devices. As…
Are Your Eyes Open About Your Retirement? Expanding on the theme of yesterday’s newsletter, “The Secret to Living Well at 100,” which we sent our clients so they can properly plan for their financial futures, here’s some supplemental information you’re sure to find helpful. And probably more than a little disconcerting. Simply put, we all…
Be Healthy and Have Money Many Financial Planners Now Recommend You Plan to Live Until Age 100 or Beyond OK, so it’s not really a “secret” that being healthy and having money are essentials to a comfortable retirement. Pretty obvious actually. But how prepared are you for the possibility that you just might be a…
Legislation would provide tax break for the wrongfully convicted April 19, 2012 – With DNA evidence helping lead the way toward exoneration of those who have been falsely convicted and wrongfully imprisoned, a bill in Congress introduced last month by Congressmen Sam Johnson (R-TX) and John Larson (D-CT), would institute fairness to countless men and…