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The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities (NLCDD) at the University of Delaware has published a new National Study (Study) titled “Future Financial Planning for People with Disabilities” on its website that should be required ...
The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities (NLCDD) at the University of Delaware has published a new ...
A prior Independent Life article (Part 1) summarizes key elements of a new National Study (Study) titled “Future Financial ...
One of the highlights of the recent Stetson 2021 National Conference on Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts was a ...
When the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) supported enactment of IRC Section 5891 as part of the Victims ...
The National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA), of which this writer is a member, has scheduled a virtual 2021 Fall ...
Almost all structured settlements are completed on a basis that qualifies future payments for tax-free treatment under I.R.C. § ...
Since it was first published in 1986, "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" , has provided structured ...
Daniel Anders, President of the National MSP Network (NMSP) sent a newsletter last week alerting this writer and other NMSP ...
Last week, the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST) sponsored its 2021 Treasury Management Training Symposium, which ...
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the most recent Version 3.3 of its Workers Compensation ...
Congratulations to the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) which will be celebrating its 35th Anniversary as ...
In her new book titled “The Scout Mindset”, author Julia Galef, co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, utilizes a ...
Industry News
Plaintiff attorneys are continuing to gain an understanding of the benefits of structuring their attorney fees, a unique tool, ...
ABLE Accounts
Since The ABLE Act created IRC 529A in 2014, 49 states have passed legislation to implement ABLE and ABLE accounts have become ...
ABLE Accounts
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published final regulations that provide guidance regarding programs under the Stephen ...
Legs & Regs
Perhaps it is not surprising, for a business that results from personal injury claims and lawsuits, that sometimes participants ...
Legs & Regs
Historically, most investors who purchase structured settlement payment rights from factoring companies are sophisticated ...
Non-Qualified
The number of exonerations for wrongfully incarcerated individuals has increased for the third year in a row, according to The ...
Legs & Regs
When a person recovers money for a tort injury committed by another person, an historic source of exclusion of that recovery from ...
Knowledge Network
Every structured settlement and settlement planning professional is presumably well-familiar with the Internal Revenue Code ...
Attorney Resources
The Christina Grillo medical malpractice case reached a $2,500,000 settlement in Texas in 1990 – thirty years ago. Why is the ...
Knowledge Network
In retrospect, the failure of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) to support the Uniform Periodic ...
Public Benefits
July 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
Knowledge Network
For the vast majority of the 300 plus members of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) who attended the ...
Knowledge Network
How different might the structured settlement market be today if the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) had ...
Knowledge Network
State periodic payment of judgment statutes originated in the United States as part of the tort reform movements of the 1970s and ...
Industry News
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has recently voted to update its Suitability in Annuity Transactions ...
Industry News
Independent Life Insurance Company (Independent Life) is excited to report Texas Statute HB 3771 is now law, having passed the ...
Public Benefits
Without more specific legal authority, many plaintiff attorneys, special needs attorneys and settlement planning professionals ...
Legs & Regs
Note: this article was edited on June 16, 2019 to correct an earlier mistake and to provide an important update.
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