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This is a LegalHack@OKCon 2013 challenge
Mass Tort Litigation Platform
Create a platform for collecting information about mass tort cases.
Hackathon goals
- Focus 1: Visualization Task (Identify admissibility of aggregating cases to a mass case)
- Focus 2: Visualization Task (Identify Admissibility, size, and effect of contingency fees in mass tort cases.
- Focus 3: Visualization Task (Find and quantify other elements in legal systems enabling the aggregation of claims into one legal case and/or making the participation in an aggregated claim favorable to the plaintiff)
- Focus 4: Enable the public to submit according information. Examples: by creating “contingency fee radar”, or the like; collecting information about how contingency fees work, and what impacts contingency fees may have.
| Jurisdiction | Subcontext | Valid as of | Admissibility | Caps | Customary amount | Effect of change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | - | - | yes | No | ? | - |
| California | MedMal | - | yes | 40% of first 50'000, 33% of next 50'000, 25% of next $100'000, 10% of anything over 200'000 | - | |
| California | - | 2016 | yes | yes, as MedMal | ? | - |
| … | … | …. | … | … | … | - |
- Focus 5: Develop routines to categorize data into a possible decision matrix (spider chart, or the like), enabling decision makers to take a decision whether, where and how to initiate a lawsuit.
Data
- TBD
Team
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