SuttonPark Marketing is offering its fourth structured-settlement payments securitization backed by court-ordered personal injury and lottery settlements.
According to DBRS, SuttonPark Structured Settlements 2017-1 is a $218.5 million notes offering that will securitize a portion of the more than $1.23 billion of structured settlement payment accounts that SuttonPark has acquired since 2009.
DBRS has assigned provisional ‘AAA’ ratings to $212.3 million in Class A notes and a ‘BBB’ to the $6.24 million in Class B notes. The notes have an expected maturity date of 2043.
A structured settlement is an arrangement resolving a claim by with periodic payments, rather than a lump sum in a personal injury claim settlement or lottery winnings. Approximately $6 billion of structured settlements are issued each year in the United States.
SuttonPark purchases both court-ordered structured settlements and lottery settlements, bundling them into collateral for bonds. There have been no losses on these payments to date, according to DBRS.
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Personal injury settlements make up the bulk (94.27%) of the pool of accounts that receive periodic payments from high-rated insurance companies (84.78% with an investment-grade corporate rating of at least ‘A’).
The Class A notes are supported by 16% credit enhancement, including 12.5% overcollateralization, 2.5% surbordination of the Class B notes and a de minimus 0.3% CE from excess spread.
The transaction includes a prefunding account of $65.6 million, according to DBRS.
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