PFAS chemicals, litigation and settlements have received considerable attention during the past several years – everywhere it seems except within the structured settlement and settlement planning markets. What are PFAS chemicals and why should they matter to members of NSSTA, AASC and SSP? Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), also known as “forever chemicals”, are a...
Following two years of disappointing sales results (2020 and 2021), which many structured settlement participants attributed to COVID-19 (COVID) and historically low interest rates, structured settlement annuity production appears to be on the upswing once again based upon industry production results for the first six months of 2022. In 2019, a reported $6.47 billion of...
When Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 35 on May 23, 2022, amending California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA), it concluded one of the California’s longest running political battles and substantially improved the fairness of California’s medical malpractice statute. The amended law goes into effect January 1, 2023. Among its significant changes, AB 35 raises...
Independent Insurance Group, LLC (“Independent Group”) announced today that its life and annuity subsidiary, Independent Life Insurance Company (“Independent Life”), has successfully launched iStructure, the first uncapped index-linked structured settlement annuity. Independent Life has secured almost $50 million in committed sales for the product from both settlement recoveries and installment sales of real estate and businesses....
Many structured settlement recipients are victims of road traffic accidents – as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists or innocent bystanders. Independent Life believes road traffic safety represents a complementary goal that all structured settlement and settlement planning professionals should not only support but also proactively advocate. National Roadway Safety Strategy Earlier this year, United States...
For many settlement planners and structured settlement annuity providers, the dominant storylines of the past two years have been COVID-19 (COVID), low interest rates and plummeting structured settlement annuity sales. In 2019, based on industry reports, $6.47 billion of annuities were purchased to fund 26,486 structured settlement cases, for an average per case premium of $244,228.....
For the past 20 plus years, two related industry issues have dominated the strategic agenda of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA): 1) factoring (aka the transfer of structured settlement payment rights) and 2) lack of growth in the primary structured settlement market. NSSTA’s Legislation Accomplishment By the end of the 1990s, NSSTA...
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