The National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP) has announced its 2013 Annual Conference will take place November 5-7 at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. Non-NASP members, including participants in both the primary and secondary structured settlement markets, are invited to attend.
Topics and Speakers
- Legislative and Regulatory Developments - Jack Kelly
- Litigation Update - Earl Nesbitt
- Capacity Issues in Structured Settlement Transactions - Rajiv Goel
- Executive Life of New York - Edward Stone
- Financing Structured Settlement Transactions - Boris Ziser
- Life Contingent Transactions - Brian Robinson
- Breakout Sessions
- Non-traditional Secondary Market Financing
- Ethical and Legal Marketing Standards
- Avoiding Problem Payees
- Addressing Judicial Challenges
- Primary Market Panel - Patrick Hindert (moderator), William Schemmel, Anthony Prieto and Daniel Hindert
- Judges' Concerns about Transfers - Judges Nancy Allf, James McCarthy and Carter Bise
The Primary Market Panel has been one of the continuing featured presentations at NASP conferences. Primary market structured settlement topics addressed at previous NASP conferences include:
- How the primary market views the secondary market
- Primary market criticisms of transfers and factoring companies
- Reasons annuity providers oppose transfers
- Common interests among annuity providers and factoring companies
- Brokers' roles in transfers
- Pre-settlement discussions about transfers
- Improving and growing the primary market
- How large is the potential primary market
- Why plaintiff attorneys and injury victims reject structured settlements
- Why annuity providers are leaving the primary market
- Financial viability of annuity providers
- Primary market strategic priorities
- Roadblocks to primary market expansion
- Issues dividing the primary market
- Has the primary market abandoned the structured settlement brand?
- Best and worst primary market business practices
- Who regulates primary market business practices
- Improving primary market knowledge and skill sets
- Impact of various factors and developments on the primary market:
- Settlement transfers
- Settlement planning
- Changing market demographics
- 2008 financial crisis
- Spencer v. Hartford
- ELNY and Reliance insolvencies
- Deficit Reduction Act
- Affordable Care Act
- Dodd-Frank
- 468B qualified settlement funds
- The Internet
For S2KM's reporting about previous NASP Conferences and structured settlement secondary market issues, see the structured settlement wiki.
For more comprehensive analysis about transfers of structured settlement payment rights, see Chapter 16 of "Structured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments" (S2P2J) including upcoming Release 54.
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