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by hollerith 3952 days ago
>This nanny state nonsense

Is the state even involved in the decision to structure these settlements (other than through its role as enforcer of a contract between 2 non-state parties, namely, the insurer and the insured)?

It could be that the insurer chose to write structuring into the contract to avoid negative publicity from the insured's spending the entire settlement and ending up poor again.