Recent Articles

Dissipation Studies

June 24, 2009 15:44

The United States structured settlement industry has drifted into an era of unprecedented transition and change with stagnant annuity growth and without any articulated industry strategic plan or strategic planning process. Forces causing structured settlement transition and change: Financial...

Jeremy Babener Interview

June 23, 2009 21:03

Jeremy Babener , a third year Juris Doctor candidate at New York University has completed a seminal structured settlement paper a copy of which is available for download online in pdf format. S2KM introduced, summarized and reviewed Jeremy Babener's paper,...Jeremy Babener , a third year Juris...

Jeremy Babener's Dissipation Paper

June 23, 2009 18:45

Jeremy Babener, a third year Juris Doctor candidate at New York University School of Law, has completed a seminal research paper titled "Justifying the Structured Settlement Tax Subsidy: The Use of Lump Sum Settlements" which identifies and analyzes 12 historical...Jeremy Babener, a third year...

Structured Settlement 2009 Strategic Analysis

May 19, 2009 12:19

S2KM has begun a mid-year 2009 strategic analysis of the structured settlement industry. This analysis includes attending and reporting about 2009 structured settlement professional stakeholder meetings plus continuing conversations with structured settlement industry leaders. To organize and...

Structured Settlement 2009 Mid-Year Update - 1

May 14, 2009 15:17

S2KM's blog has reported developments within and interactions between "structured settlement" and "knowledge management" since 2004. This blog post begins a new S2KM series titled "Structured Settlement 2009 Mid-Year Update" the purpose of which is to analyze the transitional status...S2KM's blog...

NSSTA 2009 Annual Meeting - 1

May 07, 2009 20:02

To borrow a baseball analogy from Len Blonder, the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) "hit a home run" (or rather a series of home runs) during its 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. April 28-May 1. Blonder's comments to...To borrow a baseball analogy from Len Blonder,...

Fresno County Factoring Cases - 3

May 07, 2009 14:09

Continuing a series of Fresno County factoring cases, a California court of appeals has ruled favorably for 321 Henderson Receivables, a J.G. Wentworth affiliate, reversing an earlier opinion of California superior court Judge Alan M. Simpson in 11 factoring cases...Continuing a series of Fresno...

Secondary Market Law Blog

May 06, 2009 12:13

Katherine Scanlon and Peter Vodola, partners at Pullman & Comley, have announced an exciting new blog titled "Secondary Market Law". Their blog already addresses several sub-topics including structured settlements. This state-of-the-art blog represents a major step forward for the...

SSP 2009 Annual Meeting - 1

May 04, 2009 12:43

The Society of Settlement Planners (SSP) and the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) hosted sequential annual meetings the week of April 26 in Washington, D.C. This blog post begins S2KM's reporting about those meetings. SSP's meeting (titled "Securing the...The Society of...

SSP and NSSTA 2009 Annual Meetings

April 28, 2009 02:11

The Society of Settlement Planners (SSP) and the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA) are hosting sequential 2009 Annual Meetings this week in Washington, D.C. S2KM will attend both meetings and publish reports and commentary next week. For S2KM's most...The Society of...