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Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability Forecasting: Vital for Mass Tort Settlements

Liability forecasting plays an important role in mass tort settlements. One effect of the four-decades-long asbestos litigation is that defendants in mass tort cases often create large settlement trusts through which they compensate current and future claimants for...

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

Leveraging Data to Negotiate Stronger Mass Tort Settlements

As with the other cases they litigate, plaintiffs’ attorneys will enter mass tort settlement negotiations in a case determined to secure maximum compensation for their injured clients. But mass tort cases, for a number of reasons, are more complex to litigate and...

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations and Law Firms

High Reliability Organizations (“HRO”) are institutions that operate in complex, hazardous environments, making few mistakes (i.e., medical errors, air traffic errors) over long periods of time. HROs have existed since the 1980s in the aircraft carrier, air traffic...

Knut Fenner Joins Verus, LLC as New Chief Operating Officer

Knut Fenner Joins Verus, LLC as New Chief Operating Officer On June 5, 2023, Knut Fenner joined Verus, LLC as its new Chief Operating Officer. In this role he will be responsible for all operational functions of the company. "I am very excited to announce his addition...

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

Successful Claimant Engagement with Mass Tort Clients

We recently explained how mass tort law firms can fix their claimant engagement struggles by taking a relationship-based approach to the process. In that post, we suggested firms can avoid these struggles by regularly and proactively communicating with their clients...

Enhance Mass Tort Claimant Engagement with Effective Communication

Enhance Mass Tort Claimant Engagement with Effective Communication

Among the areas at their firms most ripe for improvement, we’d bet most mass tort lawyers would have “claimant engagement” near the top of the list. As established mass tort law firms know, and as new mass tort firms quickly find out, engaging with claimants can be a...

Data Analytics Delivers Potent Settlement Negotiation Leverage

Data Analytics Delivers Potent Settlement Negotiation Leverage

Discover how Verus’ comprehensive data analytics services can deliver your plaintiff law firm powerful settlement negotiation leverage for mass torts and other complex litigation. Defendants often have the upper hand in settlement negotiations. Well-funded...