December 10, 2012:

Mark Wahlstrom, President of Wahlstrom & Associates, Scottsdale, AZ announced today that he and his firm will be partnering with Settlement Professionals Inc, of Portland, OR.

Wahlstrom & Associates, founded in 1982, is one of the nation’s oldest and most experienced plaintiff oriented structured settlement firms and has, during its decades of professional experience, been involved in some of the most innovative areas of settlements, particularly the development of mass tort, multi-claimant cases and the utilization of Qualified Settlement Funds in the claims and settlement process of these challenging cases.

The new partnership will provide SPI partners and member planners with unique access to the Wahlstrom & Associates brand, reputation and expertise in mass torts, administration and non-qualified settlements. Mark Wahlstrom will head up the new Mass Torts division for SPI and both he and his firm will be actively involved in the development and implementation of a state of the art process by which affiliated planners can confidently assist law firms to expediently process these complex cases, but also to individually assist the often thousands of claimants with their own financial and settlement planning decisions.

Wahlstrom & Associates is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and also has a national reputation in the areas of non-qualified structured settlements, such as structured sales, structured legal fees and structured oil & Gas lease bonus programs. Few firms have more years of diverse and demonstrated expertise in the structured settlement and settlement planning arena and the management and leadership of the firm looks forward to working with the SPI leadership to develop a firm with services tailored to the needs of progressive planners and designed for the next 25 years of the structured settlement and settlement planning professions.