COMPOSITE INDEX (Alphabetized)
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CAUTION: Some articles have been superseded by events,
and not all are identified. They appear for archival purposes.
See also index of Articles by Category.
See also selected Documents by category.
CAUTION: Some articles have been superseded by events,
and not all are identified. They appear for archival purposes.
- A Case for the Urgent Need to Clarify Tax Treatment of a Qualified
Settlement Fund Created for a Single Claimant (2004) - Annuity Commutation Rider Allows “Cash Out” by Payee (2003-2)
- Applications to Transfer Periodic Payments Denied (2003-3)
- Are Structures Safer Than Cash? (2001-2)
- Are You Income Tax Deferring Your Fee? (2003-3)
- Attorney Sanctioned for Fee Based on Periodic Payments (2003-3)
- Attorneys Sued by Client for Failing to Propose a Structured
Settlement (Grillo case) (2001-1) - Broker’s Error in Quoting Benefit Proposal Costly (2002-4)
- California Bill Would Give Plaintiffs Choice (2005-1)
- Can Punitive Damages Be Compromised? (2006-2)
- Certain Commission Sharing Practices Deemed to Be Illegal
(2002-4) - Class Actions Filed Against State Farm (Coppedge-Link case) and
Allstate (Stafford case) (2002-2) - Class Certification Reversed in Macomber v. Travelers (2006-2)
- Common Mistakes in Documents Create Risk (2002-2)
- Complaint Alleges Justice Department is Creating Unauthorized
Social Policy (2001-1) - Confidentiality Covenant Can Be Costly In Personal Physical Injury
Settlement (2005) - Congress Regulates Selection of Brokers by Justice (2002-4)
- Court Applies “Best Interests” Test and Rejects Purchase (2002-3)
- Debunking the QSF Single-Claimant Myth (2006-2)
- Defense’s Misrepresentation of Annuity’s “Present Value” Years
Earlier Leads to Trial (Lyons case) (2001-3) - Disinformation Campaign Seeks to Harm QSF (2002-1)
- Dispute Arises in 15-Year Old Settlement (Barnett-Ganaway v.
Liberty) (2004-1) - Do You Have a Dormant Malpractice Liability? (2001-3)
- Doing What's Right and Avoiding What's Wrong (2007)
- Don’t Accept Annuity Quotes That Violate Rules (2004)
- Don’t Risk Loss of Medicaid Benefits by Failing to Plan (2004)
- Failure to Disclose Conflict of Interest By Claims Adjuster Voids
Settlement (2002-2) - Focus on Taxable Damages (2001-1)
- Georgia Supreme Court Holds Payments Cannot Be Sold if
Contract Bars (2002-2) - Hartford Class Action Suit Filed on Structure Practices (2006-2)
- HIPAA Designed to Protect Privacy of Medical Records (2003-2)
- HIPAA Protects Privacy of Victim Throughout Settlement Process
(2004-1) - History of Abuse Tarnishes Structure Image (2002-4)
- Insurance Commissioners Respond to Scandals Over
Undisclosed Rebating and Bid-Rigging (2005-1) - Insurance Company Liable for Attorney’s Conduct (2002-4)
- Insurer Breached Mediation by Forcing Its Own Annuity (2003-3)
- Insurer Sanctioned for Delay (2005-1)
- IRS Publishes Audit Guide for Lawsuit Awards
- IRS Revises Guidelines for Auditing Damage Payments (2003-2)
- IRS Ruling Confirms Victim Compensation Structured Tax-Free
(2003-3) - IRS Scrutiny Should Not Deter Litigant from Claiming Tax Benefit
(2003) - Joint Committee on Taxation Explains New Law (2002-1)
- Knowing Rated Age is a Strategic Necessity (2003-2)
- Lawsuit Against Travelers Group Certified as Class on Four
Counts (2004-2) - Legislator Alleges Brokerage Intimidated and Retaliated (Walters
case) (2002-2) - Life Insurance Companies Draft Revision to Assignment (2003-2)
- Massachusetts Can Intercept Structures for Child Support (2002-3)
- Medicare Showing Interest in Catastrophic Tort Recoveries (2005-
1) - MetLife Acquires Travelers (2006-2)
- Monte Carlo Simulation Shows Risk That Case Settlements May
Run Out (2002-1) - New Tax Code Section 5891 Regulates Factoring (2002-2)
- New York Becomes Latest State to Require Cost Notice (2002-3)
- Payment Assignment Held Invalid in Bankruptcy (2003-1)
- Pennsylvania Requires Offer to Remain Open for 90 Days (2002-3)
- Photographer Injured by NBA Star Loses Tax Fight (2004-1)
- Plaintiff Broker Sues for Conversion and Rebating (2003-3)
- Plaintiff Brokers Can Assist in Trial Strategy (2001-2)
- Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Exposed to Claims by Their Clients (2003-3)
- Profiteering from the Misfortunes of Others (2003-1)
- Purchase of Future Payment Rights Must Have Advance Approval of
Court or Agency (2002-1) - Qualified Settlement Fund Sequence (2004-2)
- Reasons a Claimant's Counsel Should Consider a QSF (2006)
- Reversal Granted Because Annuity Testimony Was Barred by Trial
Court (2005-1) - SSI and Medicaid Benefits Not Lost after Reaching 65 (2006-2)
- Sale of Payments Denied for Failing “Best Interest” Test (2004-1)
- Sale of Annuity Payments Being Okayed Even When Settlement
Terms Prohibit (2004) - Settlements for Workers’ Compensation Future Medical Care Must
Consider Interests of Medicare or Risk Recovery Claim (2004-1) - Society of Settlement Planners Calling for Rights of Plaintiffs (2003-
1) - Society of Settlement Planners to Advocate Rights of Injury Victims
in Claim Resolution (2001-3) - Some Attorney Fees Now Double-Taxed When Plaintiff’s Injury is
Non-Physical (2005-1) - Standard of Care May Necessitate a Structure (2001-1)
- Strategy Can Avoid Double Taxation of Attorney Fee (2003-1)
- Structure Concept Being Reinvented (2001-3)
- Structured Annuity Market Landscape Change Continues (2004-1)
- Structured Settlements Grew to $6.05 Billion in 2001 (2002-1)
- Structured Settlements: The Ongoing Evolution from a Liability
Insurer’s Ploy to an Injury Victim’s Boon, Tulsa Law Review (nee
Journal) (2001) - Supreme Court Bars Medicaid from Collecting Non-Medical
Proceeds (2006-2) - Supreme Court Refuses to Resolve Circuit Split on Attorney Fee
Taxes (2002-2) - Supreme Court to Hear Attorney Fee Taxation Cases (2004-1)
- Survivors of 9-11 Victims May Now Receive Structures (2003-2)
- Tax on Emotional Damages in Limbo (2007-1)
- Three States Require Cost Notice to Claimant (2001-3)
- Trade Association Behind Broker Retaliation (Walters case) (2002-
4) - Travelers Casualty Schemes Called “Rebating” and “Short-
Changing” (Macomber v. Travelers) (2002-3) - Treasury Edges Toward Publishing Guidance on Single-Claimant
QSF (2004-2) - Two Circuits Rule Attorney Fees Not Taxable to Claimant (2003-3)
- Two Former Tax Policy Chiefs Endorse Single-Claimant QSF
(2003-2) - Understanding Constructive Receipt and Economic Benefit (2007)
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