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==What is a Structured Settlement?==

==What is a Structured Settlement?==

A Structure Settlement is a financial or insurance arrangement, including periodic payments, that a claimant accepts to resolve a personal injury tort claim or to compromise a statutory periodic payment obligation. Structured settlements were first utilized in Canada and the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. Structured settlements may include income tax and spendthrift requirements as well as benefits. Structured settlement payments are sometimes called “periodic payments”. A structured settlement incorporated into a trial judgment is called a “periodic payment judgment”.

A Structure Settlement is a financial or insurance arrangement, including periodic payments, that a claimant accepts to resolve a personal injury tort claim or to compromise a statutory periodic payment obligation. Structured settlements were first utilized in Canada and the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. Structured settlements may include income tax and spendthrift requirements as well as benefits. Structured settlement payments are sometimes called “periodic payments”. A structured settlement incorporated into a trial judgment is called a “periodic payment judgment”.

** Is a party to the suit or agreement or to a workers' compensation claim; or  

** Is a party to the suit or agreement or to a workers' compensation claim; or  

** By a person who has assumed the liability for such periodic payments under a Qualified Assignment in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 130.

** By a person who has assumed the liability for such periodic payments under a Qualified Assignment in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 130.

 

==Complicated Legal Structure==

==Complicated Legal Structure==

In an assigned case, the property/casualty company does not wish to retain the long-term periodic payment obligation on its books.  Accordingly, the property/casualty insurer transfers the obligation, through a legal device called a qualified assignment, to a third party.  The third party, called an assignment company, will require the property/casualty company to pay it an amount sufficient to enable it to buy an annuity that will fund its newly accepted periodic payment obligation.  If the claimant consents to the transfer of the periodic payment obligation (either in the settlement agreement or, failing that, in a special form of qualified assignment known as a qualified assignment and release), the defendant and/or its property/casualty company has no further liability to make the periodic payments.  This method of substituting the obliger is desirable for property/casualty companies that do not want to retain the periodic payment obligation on their books.  Typically, an assignment company is an affiliate of the life insurance company from which the annuity is purchased.

In an assigned case, the property/casualty company does not wish to retain the long-term periodic payment obligation on its books.  Accordingly, the property/casualty insurer transfers the obligation, through a legal device called a qualified assignment, to a third party.  The third party, called an assignment company, will require the property/casualty company to pay it an amount sufficient to enable it to buy an annuity that will fund its newly accepted periodic payment obligation.  If the claimant consents to the transfer of the periodic payment obligation (either in the settlement agreement or, failing that, in a special form of qualified assignment known as a qualified assignment and release), the defendant and/or its property/casualty company has no further liability to make the periodic payments.  This method of substituting the obliger is desirable for property/casualty companies that do not want to retain the periodic payment obligation on their books.  Typically, an assignment company is an affiliate of the life insurance company from which the annuity is purchased.

An assignment is said to be "qualified" if it satisfies the criteria set forth in Internal Revenue Code Section 130 [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000130----000-.html].  Qualification of the assignment is important to assignment companies because without it the amount they receive to induce them to accept periodic payment obligations would be considered income for federal income tax purposes.  If an assignment qualifies under Section 130, however, the amount received is excluded from the income of the assignment company.  This provision of the tax code was enacted to encourage assigned cases; without it, assignment companies would owe federal income taxes but would typically have no source from which to make the payments.

An assignment is said to be "qualified" if it satisfies the criteria set forth in Internal Revenue Code Section 130.  Qualification of the assignment is important to assignment companies because without it the amount they receive to induce them to accept periodic payment obligations would be considered income for federal income tax purposes.  If an assignment qualifies under Section 130, however, the amount received is excluded from the income of the assignment company.  This provision of the tax code was enacted to encourage assigned cases; without it, assignment companies would owe federal income taxes but would typically have no source from which to make the payments.

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