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Susan Barnes / Principal
Barnes & Company
720 Collier Drive, Dixon CA 95620
707-888-2647
Welcome to the website for the National Association of Settlement Purchasers (NASP)
NASP is the only trade association in the country relating to the secondary market for structured settlements. Since 1996, NASP and its members have worked diligently to create, support and promote a vibrant, competitive, viable, secondary market for structured settlements.
NASP supports structured settlements and believes that they can be an excellent tool for settling lawsuits. Yet, they have a significant drawback. Structured settlements are, for the most part, inflexible and illiquid. When people who are receiving structured settlement payments (commonly referred to as “payees”) find that their “structure” is not allowing them to achieve their personal or financial objectives, or when their personal, family, or financial circumstances change, such that they need or desire liquidity and flexibility, these payees turn to the secondary market.
NASP is dedicated to insuring that the secondary market is available to payees who find that they need or desire flexibility and liquidity. A viable, competitive secondary market makes structured settlements more valuable, desirable, and beneficial.
The mission of NASP is to educate the public and other interested parties about the secondary market and support and promote the secondary market. NASP and its member companies have worked with legislators, regulators, courts, judges, court administrators, insurance companies, primary market brokers, plaintiff’s lawyers and others around the country to insure that the secondary market remains viable, fair, competitive, and transparent. NASP is proud of the service and support it provides its members and, most importantly, payees who desire the flexibility, liquidity, and security of a viable secondary market.
