Bill Introduced in District of Columbia on Structured Settlements

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Council members Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), Anita Bonds (D-At Large), David Grosso (I-At Large) and Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4) introduced a structured settlement protection act to protect District of Columbia residents seeking to sell their structured settlement payment streams. While we agree with the op-ed in The Washington Post on September 11, 2015 by legal aid attorneys Heather Latino and Thomas Papson that the proposed legislation is a “huge step toward ensuring that District residents with structured settlements from personal injury cases are not victimized a second time by a company seeking to purchase their settlement payments” structured settlement protection acts need to ensure that they work to protect the recipients of structured settlements, not the companies purchasing the structured settlement payment streams.  This proposed legislation does not do enough.