Practice Law firms · Mass tort and MDL
Mass tort is the personal injury records problem multiplied, and then given a court order with teeth. A plaintiff fact sheet that goes in late or deficient is not a scheduling problem, it is a Rule 41(b) problem.
Published figures and statutory rules, not measurements of your practice. We have not audited your files and these are a starting point for a conversation rather than a claim about your numbers.
Plaintiff fact sheets were ordered in 57 percent of MDL proceedings examined, and in 81 percent of those carrying more than a hundred actions. They replace individual interrogatories, and the court expects them complete and on time.
Missing pharmacy records, an absent lot number, an exposure date nobody pinned down. Defense moves to compel, and dismissal runs under Rule 41(b) for failure to comply or Rule 37(b)(2) on the discovery order. The claim was good; the paperwork was not.
Nine hundred claimants is not nine hundred times harder, it is nine hundred times more places for one field to be blank. Adding paralegals adds coordination, and coordination is where things get missed.
Deficiencies discovered when defense identifies them are expensive. Found three weeks earlier, they are a phone call to a client and a supplemental records request.
Fields populated from records, intake and the client interview, with provenance on every answer so a reviewer can see where it came from rather than trusting it.
Every fact sheet checked against the governing order before it goes out. Missing lot numbers, absent pharmacy records, unpinned exposure dates surfaced as a work queue while there is still time to fix them.
Requests raised, chased and reconciled across hundreds of claimants and providers, with the ones actually blocking a deadline sorted to the top.
Claimant status, deadlines, deficiencies and documents in one place, reportable to co-counsel and leadership without somebody rebuilding a spreadsheet each Friday.
Deficiency Pharmacy records absent and lot number unpinned. Caught 19 days out, so it is a client call rather than a motion to compel.
Alongside it, usually. The platforms hold the census well and are weaker at the document work feeding it: reading records, populating fact sheets, catching deficiencies before defense does. We build that layer and write results back rather than asking you to migrate.
That is the normal case and it is a reason to build rather than buy. Each order defines its own fields and deadlines, and a product built for one tort will fight you on the next. The Audit week scopes against the orders you are actually working under.
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