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A structured settlement provides unmatched financial security to victims of physical injuries and their families. Using a tailored stream of payments, a structured settlement provides long-term tax- free income, often for a lifetime. The National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) represents more than 600 licensed insurance brokers, insurance companies, and others involved in establishing and administering structured settlements.

February 3, 2010: NSSTA President Speaks on Structured Settlements, Industry Opportunities
	Appearing on Ringler Radio this week, NSSTA president Dan Durbin offered his perspective on structured settlements’ benefits and why federal policy encourages their use. He also addressed ongoing changes at the National Structured Settlements Trade Association that have created a better, more capable organization. NSSTA President Dan Durbin >>Read More
February 1, 2010: Federal Task Force Highlights Value of Annuities
	Late last week, the federal government’s Middle Class Task Force, chaired by Vice President Joseph Biden, issued a report highlighting ways for Americans to improve their financial security, including maintaining a more secure retirement. The report concluded that annuities, which are typically the preferred way to fund structured settlement payments, are an effective way to improve financial security, given the high degree of certainty and the benefits of regular income. Vice President Joseph Biden, chair of the Middle Class Task Force >>Read More
January 27, 2010: Structured Settlements Had No Part of Rothstein Operation, Evidence Shows
	Former Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein pleaded guilty today to running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme based on sales of fictitious lawsuit settlements. As the National Structured Settlements Trade Association has documented, whatever Rothstein may have sold (or pretended to have sold) to investors, it had nothing to do with structured settlements. U.S. District Judge James Cohn >>Read More
January 16, 2010: "Structured Settlements Offer Financial Security in Good and Bad Times"
	That's the headline from a great letter to the editor in the January 13 issues of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. Written by NSSTA Board member Dan Finn, the letter notes: "Some things just make sense regardless of economic realities and it's doubtful that guaranteed, tax-advantaged future income tailored to an injury victim's (or an attorney's) specific living needs will ever fall out of favor." NSSTA Board member Dan Finn >>Read More
January 13, 2010: Video - Immunizations & Structured Settlements
	"Without the structured settlement, there's no telling what kind of dissipation might have taken place," says former attorney and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman in a new video. Named "one of the best trial lawyers in America" by National Law Journal, Goodman was talking about a former client – a mother with a child who was severely disabled from a reaction to a mumps, measles & rubella immunization shot. Mayor Goodman & NSSTA President Dan Durbin >>Read More

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