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Mark Newton has joined SPI.
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Irene Calderon w/Jill Laird are flowing their The Calderson Settlements Group business through Millennium.
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Traci Kaas left Ringler to join Millenium.
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Betty Gregware has left Platinum to join John Hancock.
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Dan Alvarez & Anthony Prieto have left Millennium to join the new Delta Group.
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John Adams has left Atlas to join Aviva.
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Dave Hart left Millennium to join The James Street Group.
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Will Shapiro (Austin, TX broker) left Millennium to join The James Street Group.
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Jason Lazarus left Millennium and joined the new Delta Group.
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Brian Ginty has joined Creative Capital.
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Ruben Brown, last seen working for GE, has landed a position with Pacific Life.
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Judy Lewis has resigned from working with the AAJ. She will be missed.
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David Miranda, who had left a long run with Delta to join Millennium, is now going back to the new Delta run by Michael Upchurch.
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Christi Fried is no longer heading up the structured settlement department of John Hancock.
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Mike McCullough is getting married this November. Congrats to Mike!
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John McCullough is getting married this summer - Congrats to John!
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Mark Wahlstrom (AZ) and his son Evan have left Selective Settlements to join Summit.
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Ringler purchases Diversified.
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Dave Snyder sells his company The Delta Group to Michael Upchurch of Upchurch Financial.
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Brian Ginty is leaving Prudential.
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John Darer is leaving Summit to join Brant Hickey & Assoc.
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J.P. Steele has been replaced by his brother Bobby.
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Mela Ginty has joined Ringler, CT.
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Steve Boger was spotted at a life settlements conference. He is now self-employed doing quantitive underwriting for the life co's.
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Perry Wroth, MO, is leaving Cambridge Galaher to join Atlas.
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Randy Dyer's employment with the NSSTA has ended.
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Kathy Janus has left Ringler to join SPI.
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Greg Meyer has gone back to Ringler.
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John Adams has left as National Marketing Director for Atlas and joined Tom Stevenson in charge of marketing for his Las Vegas, San Francisco and Laguna Niguel offices.
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Gerry Gregor has left Ringler and joined Millennium.
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Jamie Anthony, NY city, has joined Bradford Settlement Group.
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Bill Blankinship (Atlanta & NY city) has joined Bradford Settlement Company.
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Congrats to Chris Harlan for his recent engagement.
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Christie Fried was recently spotted on the Oprah Winfrey show which was about "catching a man when you're over 35".
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Mark Dickson has left Summit to re-join James Street.
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James Creel, formerly with Mass Mutual, has joined The Halpern Group.
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Steve Chapman has left Selective Settlements to join SPI.
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Uncle Dave Ringler has his nephew, Herb Spencer, set-up to do structures in Nashville, TN.
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Joe & Tom Parmelee (brokers in St. Louis) recently left Ringler to join Atlas.
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Bill Tocchi will announce today (3/9/07) that he is to be the new President of SFA.
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Brett Newman left The Settlement Services Group and is now with Millennium.
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Traci Kaas, broker in CA, formerly with Delta has now joined Ringler.
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David Sheeran, formerly Prestwick in TX, is now with Summit.
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Irene Govea (San Antonio broker), formerly with Summit, is now with Bradford Settlement Company.
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Ron Sullivan is leaving Brant Hickey and returning to Bradford Settlement Company.
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Ward Zimmerman, Enterpriz Economic Consulting in Boone, NC, who brokers through Summit, was reported to have severely broken his leg during a ski accident. Best wishes for a speedy recovery Ward!
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John Scarbrough left SFA to join Ringler.
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Leanne Sprague left FSS to join Branch Hickey
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Michael Upchurch, Upchurch Financial, left Millenium and joined National Settlement Consultants.
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Long time Delta broker, Dave Miranda, made a move and joined Millennium.
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Doug Johnson, formerly Genworth counsel, is now working for Symetra as a marketing representative.
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Gary Burke is leaving SFA. No word on where he'll call home next.
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Will Shapiro formerly with The Settlement Services Group has recently joined Millennium Settlements.
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John McCulloch is leaving Allstate effective September 16th to become the VP Marketing for EPS. Replacing John is Ron Johnson, currently with Allstate.
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Sean Petronzi (Nevada broker), formerly with EPS, is now with Summit.
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Cathy Shulman (Dallas broker) left Mesirow Financial Structured Settlements (aka Settlement Planning Assoc.) and is now with EPS.
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Colt McClelland & Bill Hans (Kansas City) who started in the SS biz. with Bradford Settlements, then went to Ringler are now with National Settlement Consultants (Goodman's company).
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Ismael Acevedo (Izzie), formerly Allstate, now works for AIG.
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Al Tamagni left SFA (Alaska) to join Bradford Settlement Co.
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Dennis Drexler left Allstate to work with Cambridge Galaher in IL.
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Settlement Planning Associates are now Mesirow Financial Structured Settlements.
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Michele Whitmore (CO broker) has left The Delta Group to work with Settlement Professionals Inc. (Settlepro).
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Do you give business to Genworth? If so, you may want to inquire about having Ruben Brown come and cook for you and your group! Bon Appetit!
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Greg Pollex, Brad Mathers and Co., long time SFA brokers, are now with Ringler Associates.
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Kelly Ramsdale, formerly with Mark Dickson, has set-up her own shop, under the Summit banner, namely, Kelly Ramsdale & Associates.
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ATLA (Association of Trial Lawyers of America) changed their name during their Annual conference in Seattle to American Association for Justice.
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Dave Ringler, one of the grand daddy's of the structured settlement industry has come back from retirement and re-joined Ringler Associates.
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Mike Tucker & Mike Furney are rumored to have started a trust company, namely, Trustworthy Settlements.
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Larry Curtis, formerly with Ringler, now with EPS, has started Mass Tort Settlement Services, Inc.
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Robert Risk, son of the infamous Dick Risk, has left Summit to join Settlepro (Rick Bishop and Jack Meligan's co.).
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Mark Newton left Bradford Settlement Co. and now operates under Summit.
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Andy Hull, formerly, Settlement Associates, is rumored to be back in the biz.
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Jesse Spodick, formerly with John Hancock, has gone to work for Mary Lynch Bagarella (SFA broker).
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Jill Laird, formerly with Pacific Life, has gone to work for Irene Calderon (EPS broker) as her assistant.
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