Access Funding is back in the news in a January 21, 2019 article in The Washington Post. The recent settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by two of Access Funding’s former customers would provide about $750,000 for victims of the company. Under the terms of the settlement, the victims released claims filed by Attorney General […]
In late November, 2018 DRB Capital, LLC filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach Circuit Court, Florida against several other secondary market, factoring companies, including Rightway Funding LLC, BTG Advisors LLC, Sempra Finance LLC, Greenwood Funding LLC, and JLC Capital Funding LLC alleging that these companies interfered with DRB’s business in violation of the Florida Deceptive […]
On January 8, 2018, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced that Maryland’s Consumer Protection Division had entered into a settlement resolving an investigation into deceptive marketing practices by Annuity Sold, LLC and its many affiliated companies: Uber Funding,LLC; Bendermere Capital Solutions, LLC; Axis Funding, LLC; Stonebridge Capital, LLC; Greenspring Funding, LLC; LSG, LLC; Preak […]
Fraud in the structured settlement secondary market appears to continue unabated. One of the latest scams seems to involve transfer companies that obtain court orders authorizing an annuitant to sell his/her periodic payments, and then the company fails to pay the seller. The seller is then faced with chasing down the company or figuring out […]
On August 3, 2017, the Miami Herald reported that Jose Camacho, the Broward County attorney who specialized in filing structured settlement transfer petitions was sentenced to one year in jail, and ten years of probation. He plead guilty to 14 felony charges after forging over 100 judicial signatures beginning in 2012.
Edward Stone will be a guest speaker at the Society of Settlement Planners Annual Conference in Las Vegas on March 2, 2017. Edward Stone and John Darer will participate in a panel discussion on current developments in the structured settlement secondary market.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed suit in federal court in Baltimore accusing Access Funding of violations of the federal Consumer Protection Act. Access Funding (now Reliance Funding) is a purchaser of structured settlement payment streams whose alleged predatory business practices involving people who had been poisoned by lead paint as children were […]
Maryland Senate Bill 734, which amends the procedures for structured settlement transfers took effect on October 1, 2016. Senate Bill 734 requires that factoring companies register with the Maryland Attorney General before filing transfer petitions or applications within the State of Maryland. The bill further requires that factoring companies (known as transferees under the structured […]
In March, 2016 the Florida legislature passed a bill revising the Florida Structured Settlement Protection Act § 626.99296 et seq., adding new requirements designed to protect individuals selling their structured settlement payments in the secondary market. The revised Act requires that (1) transfer petitions be filed in the county where the payee resides; (2) all payees […]
The Maryland Attorney General, Brian Frosh, has asked two attorneys involved in the structured settlement factoring industry, Anuj Sud and Charles Smith, to divulge records relating to their participation with Access Funding’s acquisition of over $28,000,000 of future payments from “overwhelmingly poor” Baltimore residents who were “cognitively impaired as a result of lead poisoning. Unlike many […]
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