Mass Tort Litigation Platform

Create a platform for collecting information about mass tort cases.

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.

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