This is a [[event:2013-09|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 =====

  * [[user:alog|Antoine Logean]]

===== Links =====

  * Relevant documentation ...
  * Blog or forum posts ...
  * Tools you used ...
  
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