Archive for August 2021
Structure Broker Lawsuit Finally Dies
In April of 2014, this Blog noted that an antitrust lawsuit brought by Paul Isaac and Paramount Settlement Planning, Inc. (together, the Isaac Plaintiffs), against Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company (MLMIC) and five structured settlement brokers, including KCG, had been dismissed in its entirety, with prejudice, for failure to state a claim. In October 2015,…
Read MoreThe Uncertain Future of Interest Rates — Revisited
In September 2012, we posted an article — But Interest Rates Have To Go Up! Don’t They? — which explained that interest rates had been falling for roughly thirty years, and despite the multitude of “experts” arguing to the contrary, nobody could predict higher rates in the immediate future with any degree of certainty. At the time, the…
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