Deficiency notice
A deficiency notice is a formal notice that a required filing is incomplete, telling the filer exactly what is missing and giving a deadline to supply it before the claim or case is dismissed.
The term appears in mass tort practice, in Social Security work and in state court filings, and it means roughly the same thing everywhere: something is missing and a clock is now running.
Why they pile up
They are individually small and collectively enormous. Each one is a specific missing item — an unsigned authorization, a date range that does not cover the treatment, a missing employment record. None takes long. There are just a lot of them, and each has its own deadline.
The failure mode
Not ignoring them. Losing track of which of the eighty open ones is due this week. That is a tracking problem rather than a legal one, and it is the kind of thing software is unusually good at and people are unusually bad at.
Not ready to book a call
Send us five pages of a record set. We will send back what we found in it.
Five pages is enough, redacted however you like. You get a short video back within two business days showing what a chronology would surface from it: the dates, the gaps, the things worth knowing before the other side finds them.
- Send five pages of a real file. Redact whatever you like first.
- We run them and record what comes out, including what it misses.
- You get the video within two business days. If there is nothing worth showing, we say so.