Best's Recommended Expert Service Providers - Structured Settlements

• Toll Free: 888-325-8640
• Telephone: 646-849-1588
• Mobile: 203-561-6560
• Fax: 203-547-6110
• E-Mail: jdarer@4structures.com
• Website: https://www.4structures.com

Established: 2000

Qualified Member Since: 2013

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About Us

4structures.com®, LLC is a Qualified Member in Best’s Recommended Expert Service Providers. 4structures® uses Sudden Money® tools and protocols and provides transition expertise to parties in all types of claims and litigation as part of a humanistic process that facilitates case resolution.

Settlement services include comprehensive settlement planning, mediation/negotiation strategies and assistance, structured attorney fees and deferred compensation strategies for lawyers, structured settlement annuity placement and diversification strategy, implementation and/or coordination of alternative periodic payment and litigation recovery management solutions such as settlement preservation or recovery management trusts, special needs trusts, Medicare set aside trusts. Regardless of where you stand, by utilizing us as your centralized information resource you can save time and energy.

4structures.com®, LLC serves diverse mix of clients. We are dedicated to serving the clients who engage us. We are experienced, knowledgeable financial consultants who are entrepreneurs; who work with trial lawyers, claims personnel, mediators, risk managers and other financial and legal professionals, to effectively design, help negotiate and implement settlement solutions that are appropriate to the scenario for which we are engaged. Our in-depth analysis, comprehensive settlement planning advice, tenacity and knowledge of simply how to "get it done" gets results.

4structures.com®, LLC strives to be one of the industry knowledge leaders. The 4structures.com®, LLC web site has over 50 pages of searchable information and perhaps the industry's most comprehensive glossary of key words, terms and phrases for structured settlement planning and recovery management as well as other terms relevant to the issues facing our clients and prospective clients.

4structures.com®, LLC is also a provider of other annuity based and non-annuity based deferred periodic payment solutions such as structured installment sales, structured celebrity and athlete endorsement fees and divorce settlements. With structured sales, buyers and sellers of business interests or real estate entering into buy/sell transactions in the USA that qualify as installment sales under IRC§453, may use the structured sales method to secure the cash flow and provide a more creative customized cash flow design than under a regular installment sale.

4structures.com, LLC also offers divorce structured settlements as a creative means to secure payment obligations in a divorce where the paying spouse has sufficient capital, and structured celebrity endorsement fees, an effective deferred periodic payment solution for athletes, actors and actresses, models, authors and other celebrities.

4structures.com®, LLC provides ancillary insurance services to tort victims, attorneys and other entities. Some of those services include life insurance, impaired risk life insurance, disability insurance, long term care solutions such as long term care insurance, life insurance with LTC hybrid, annuity with LTC hybrid and life insurance conversions to give more choice about where long term care services are delivered (home, assisted living or skilled nursing facility/nursing home) estate planning solutions such as joint life second to die life insurance.

In the settlement arena, with a broad geographical presence, through our affiliations, and high level technological efficiency through our in4structure® technology, we have the flexibility to create service groups to handle virtually any type of loss from an aviation accident to medical or legal malpractice and employment settlements.

4structures.com®, LLC accepts referrals from other licensed financial professionals, firms and financial advisors on a case by case basis. We respect your client relationships on referrals where there is overlap in the insurance services area.

4Structures.com®, LLC will consider project joint ventures and strategic alliances with other settlement professionals and firms with complimentary skill sets.

Let us be your source 4structures®, whether that be structured attorney fees, structured installment sales, structured settlements or structured celebrity endorsement fees!

Firm Highlights

4structures Best Recommended Structured Settlement Experts. Comprehensive settlement planning services and collaborative bridge building financial transition services. Serves USA.

How We Offer Value

We use structured settlements to provide secure income streams to address what most people most worry about. Having a large lump sum doesn't solve the worry. Nobel Laureate William Sharpe has said that Decumulation is he nastiest, hardest problem in finance".

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Qualifications

Master Structured Settlement Consultant (MSSC), Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC), Certified Financial Tranistionist (CeFT), Registered Settlement Planner (RSP), Certified in Long Term Care (CLTC), Certified Insurance Fiduciary (CIF)

40 years in financial services
30 years in the structured settlement and settlement planning space

Professional Memberships

• National Structured Settlements Trade Association
• Society of Settlement Planners
• Society of Financial Service Professionals
• Sudden Money Institute

Service Area

4structures.com®, LLC primarily serves accounts throughout the United States and the London Market and international clients on their risks in the United States. However, some consultants may serve clientele in other international jurisdictions.

Personnel Information

Founder & President

John D. Darer, CLU, ChFC, MSSC, CeFT® RSP, CLTC

• Telephone: 203-561-6560
• Mobile: 203-561-6560
• E-Mail: jdarer@4structures.com

Years of Experience: 30

Practice Areas

• Medical Malpractice
• Admiralty
• Automobile Liability
• Automotive Products Liability
• Aviation
• Bodily Injury
• Employment Practices Liability
• Environmental and Toxic Injury
• Wrongful Death
• Wrongful Termination
• Workers' Compensation
• Trucking Litigation
• Personal Injury
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Structured Installment Sales
• Tax Deferral Solutions for Personal Injury Attorneys
• Tax Deferral Solutions for Parties Settling Suits with Taxable Damages
• Settlement Trusts
• Structured Medicare Set Aside
• Life Settlements
• Funding Agreements
• Interest Rate Linked Structured Settlements

Holds Insurance Licenses in AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ. NY, NV, OH, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, RI, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV and the District of Columbia (Washington DC).

John Darer® is a highly skilled creative structured settlement expert, Master of Structured Settlement Consultant, Registered Settlement planner, Certified Financial Transitionist and licensed insurance agent who is a deep listener, excellent communicator, thought leader and problem solver who has the gift of being able to break down complex financial ideas and concepts and articulate them so that people of all levels of ability can actually understand them! John brings a wide range of practical hands-on settlement consulting experience designing financial settlement solutions for injured parties, helping to negotiate settlement solutions and development of innovative technological applications and cost saving solutions for complex claims settlement scenarios in aviation, medical malpractice, real estate, employment practice liability and construction matters in jurisdictions throughout the United States. 

John Darer also lends his expertise to select cases, involving structured settlements, or periodical payments, outside of the United States. Mr. Darer has over 30 years of practical experience in the financial services industry.

Memberships:

• National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA)
• Financial Transitionist Institute, a Division of the Sudden Money® Institute
• American Association of Long Term Care Insurance (AALTCi)
• Aviation Insurance Association
• National Association of Fixed Annuities
• National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisers (NAIFA) [Socirty of Financial Service Professionals SFSP merged with NAIFA effective 1/1/2024}
• Society of Settlement Planners (SSP)

Publications:

• "Structured Settlements Can Help Employment Lawyer Help Clients to Minimize Tax Liability, Maximize Social Security," CT Law Tribune June 20, 2016
• "Good Faith Use of Structured Settlements In Bad Faith Claims," CT Law Tribune March 14, 2016
• "Structured Settlements Resolution Options in Product Liability and Toxic Tort Cases," CT Law Tribune December 14, 2015
• "Medical Malpractice Cases Suited For Structured Settlements," CT Law Tribune November 16, 2015
• "Structured Settlement Secondary Market Fills a Need But Reckless Lack of Regulation Needs Constructive Solutions," September 2015 White Paper
• "Safety and Security as Part of the New Normal," CT Law Tribune June 8, 2015
• "Clients Need Help Planning Life Transitions," CT Law Tribune June 9, 2014
• " Rigorous Coursework Leads to Registered Settlement Planners," CT Law Tribune May 25, 2009

Certifications:

• Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) American College
• Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) American College
• Certified Structured Settlement Consultant (CSSC) NSSTA professional certification, in conjunction with University of Notre Dame
• Master Structured Settlement Consultant (MSSC) NSSTA, in conjunction with University of Notre Dame
• Registered Settlement Planner (RSP). Registry of Settlement Planners Board, in conjunction with Texas Tech University
• FINRA Series 66 Active
• Certified in Long Term Care (CLTC)
• Certified Insurance Fiduciary (CIF)

Education:

• Syracuse University School of Management, B.S., 1983

Fraternity Information:

Sigma Alpha Mu

Born: 1961

Service Areas

New York, Manhattan, Melville, Pound Ridge, Thornwood, Armonk, Wilton, Ridgefield, Valhalla, Westchester, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Yonkers, Elmsford, Chicago, Nassau County, Suffolk County, Bergen County, Stamford, Greenwich, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Westport, New Haven, Danbury, New Canaan, West Haven, Milford, Shelton, West Hartford, Glastonbury, New London, Staten Island, Bronx, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Miami, Los Angeles, Cape May, Philadelphia, New Rochelle, Albany, Glens Falls, Elmira, Binghamton, Syracuse, Erie County, Olean, Camden, Ocean County, Morristown, Scarsdale, Battery Park City, Jersey City, Mahwah, Toms River, Livingston, Middletown, Scranton, Buffalo, Midtown Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side, DUMBO, Garden City, Uniondale, Great Neck, Little Neck, Huntingdon, Roverhead, Westhampton, East Hampton

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