Structured Settlements

Recent Posts from Structured Settlements

• Calling Early vs. Calling Late in the Case -It can Doom Your Best Intentions

  I received a panic phone call the other day from a P.I. attorney that we have worked with for over 20 years. He was at mediation with his client and, as so often happens, the…

• Qualified Settlement Funds -A MECHANISM WHOSE TIME HAS COME.

  View this informative article by Robert W. Wood, published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 23, 2009. “Whatever you choose to call it, a Qualified Settlement Fund, called a QSF or a Section 468B…

• End of Year Message from Jack Meligan

• Legal Broadcast Network Interviews Jack Meligan

  Legal Broadcast Network (LBN) founder Mark Wahlstrom interviews Jack Meligan about his company (SPI), and they discuss the financial crisis and the annuity markets. (click the triangular button to play the video)

• The AIG Failure – How It Affects Structured Settlements

  It’s not new news anymore, however, we are still receiving calls from concerned clients and attorneys asking whether or not the AIG failure affects their structured settlement dollars or not. Watch the short video below…

• Structuring Attorney Fees – To Fee Or Not To Fee…

  Over the past 10 years, more and more attorneys are turning to Attorney Fee Structures to help them reach their financial planning goals.  In this short video, Jack Meligan discusses different strategies attorneys may consider…

• Settlement Planning… When Can There Be Too Much Of A Good Thing?

  Can there be too much of a good thing when it comes to planning the financial aspects of your clients settlement? There sure can be. In this short video Jack explains how placing too much…

• Stipulation of Settlement Language – Protecting The Claimant at Mediation

  At mediation defendants like to try and force your clients to make decisions about Structured Settlements that will affect the rest of their lives, before your clients have had the chance to meet with their…

• The “Pacheco Case” – Quick Case Study

  This case in New Mexico brought to light one of the tactics used by the defense to try and control the direction and flow of the injury victim’s settlement dollars. In this case, a casualty…

• New Defense Ploy to Control Injury Victim’s Settlement Dollars

  What’s that old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is to good to be true”? Watch this short video and educate yourself on the latest defense tactic designed to get…