USClaims is proud to announce that it is now a top sponsor of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA). With its $100,000 commitment at the Skyline Partner level, USClaims joins with 5-Star Legal Funding to support one of the strongest trial lawyer associations in the country. This momentous partnership furthers USClaims’ mission of making Litigation Funding Simplified ™.
The following article was contributed by Eric Schuller, President of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC).
The classification of Consumer Legal Funding as a loan is more than mere semantics. Consumer Legal Funding is the purchase of an asset; that being a portion of the proceeds of the consumer’s legal claim. This form of investment allows the consumer to access much needed support in order to obtain the financial assistance they need while their claim is making its way through the system.
You may ask yourself, so why does this matter?
Litigation Funding leader Tribeca Capital Group, LLC, is pleased to announce its New Year 2021 Mass Tort initiative to offer financial relief to victims of defective surgical implants, unsafe medications, or institutions that protected sexual predators. These mass torts include the over-the-counter heartburn medication Zantac, medical device placement surgeries for hernia mesh and inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, and sexual abuse by leaders and others associated with the Boy Scouts of America organization. Tribeca has formed a dedicated team to assist victims who are asserting claims against the corporations and groups in whom they placed their trust but ended up wreaking havoc in their lives.
Thomas Girardi was a famous trial lawyer when he assured devastated clients that he would help them. One such client, Kathy Ruigomez, took the celebrity attorney at his word based on his affectation, and his reputation as illustrated in the film Erin Brockovich.
Multi Funding USA, a leading provider of pre-settlement funding serving law firms and attorneys, has been named the exclusive litigation funding partner for TrialSchool.org (Trial School), a not-for-profit trial advocacy training for lawyers who represent individuals and families. Multi Funding USA is a Platinum Sponsor for Trial School and will offer cloud-based litigation finance services to Trial School’s extensive client base of law firms and attorneys across the United States.
It’s been asserted that lawyer and reality-show-husband Tom Girardi is currently incapable of active participation in his current legal situation. Documents recently filed assert that the firm Girardi Keese owes Virage SPV more than $10 million. Yet Girardi’s brother maintains that the founder of the firm is suffering from memory loss and requires a guardian ad litem for himself and his firm.
Easy Legal Finance Inc. a Canadian litigation financing firm, announced today the acquisition of Settlement Lenders Inc. Based in Edmonton, Settlement Lenders Inc. started serving clients in the early 1990s as one of the first firms in the country to offer pre-settlement lending to personal injury plaintiffs.
Golden Pear Funding OpCo, LLC announced Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns a rating to one class of notes from PEAR 2020-1, LLC – an $80 million litigation finance asset backed security (ABS) transaction. The PEAR 2020-1, LLC transaction represents Golden Pear’s first rated security collateralized by litigation finance receivables.
The following article was contributed by Eric Schuller, President of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC).
The husband of reality TV star Erika Jayne is being held in civil contempt along with his law firm. A federal judge in a Chicago court made the decision after Thomas Girardi and the Girardi Keese law firm failed to identify the whereabouts of more than $2 million in payments for survivors and family of the Lion Air Flight 610 plane crash.
Tom Girardi, the real-life Erin Brockovich lawyer, and his “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” wife are being sued for embezzlement. They’re accused of misappropriating funds from the Lion Air crash settlement. Rather than giving the money to the victims, the couple is accused of using the funds in service of an “outrageous lifestyle.”
On November 20, 2020, Oasis Financial became a proud supporter of the Truth Hope & Justice Initiative, a social justice movement designed to mobilize and support mothers from across the country who have lost loved ones to police violence. Oasis Financial is one of the nation’s largest providers of pre-settlement and medical funding, which helps plaintiffs in a lawsuit recover physical and financially from an injury that wasn’t their fault.
State courts face an array of challenges, only some of which are related to COVID. Budget cuts, ever-growing backlogs, logistical concerns, even constitutional challenges are impacting the legal world in myriad ways. Meanwhile, lawyers, judges, defendants—everyone is looking for ways to get back to some semblance of normalcy.
Tribeca Capital Group, LLC, a leading pre-settlement litigation funding company, announced today that it is accepting applications for litigation advances from patients who have filed claims or lawsuits against any of the manufacturers of the heartburn medication ranitidine (eg. Zantac, a brand name of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi).
No one plans for a car accident. By definition, they come as a surprise. When they happen, the result can range from mild inconvenience to life-changing physical, emotional, and financial consequences. If you’re not already well-monied, a car accident loan might be a viable option.
On November 16, 2020 at 1 PM Eastern, the American Bar Association’s Center for Professional Responsibility will present a 60-minute CLE webinar on consumer litigation funding.
Woodstock, NY—October 6, 2020 —Multi Funding, a leading provider of pre-settlement funding serving law firms and attorneys, has been selected as the preferred litigation funding partner for Total Trial Solutions. A provider of comprehensive litigation support services, Total Trial Solutions will offer Multi Funding’s cloud-based litigation finance services to its extensive client base of law firms and attorneys across the United States.
This article was contributed by Eric Schuller, President of the Alliance for Responsible Consumer Legal Funding (ARC).
On October 1, 2020 the California Bar Association published Formal Opinion NO. 2020-204 on Third-Party Litigation Funding.
Forbes Ventures is pleased to announce that, further to the announcement of 2 March 2020, it has established a wholly owned UK subsidiary, Forbes Ventures Cell 1 Limited (the ‘UK Cell’).
On August 3, 2020 the American Bar Association House of Delegates passed resolution 111A by a vote of 366-10, regarding the “Best Practices for Third-Party Litigation Funding”. The Best Practices addressed Consumer Legal Funding, Commercial Litigation Finance and Attorney Funding.
Segue Cloud Services, a division of Woodstock Capital Holdings, has released its Segue 3.0 platform, a cloud-based platform which combines all pre-settlement funding workflows and processes, data recovery, and digitized document management features. Segue is a leading provider of cloud-based management tools for the legal and specialty finance community. It has served litigation finance companies and law offices around the country since 2010.
Much has been made about the interest charged by consumer legal funders in mass tort cases. One study suggests that interest rates are as high as 60%. Some are using such figures as the basis for clamping down on the practice of Litigation Finance, even if that comes to the detriment of those who rely on such funding in the pursuit of justice.
Since the impact of COVID, clinics and hospitals are besieged by new patients they can scarcely accommodate. Beds are full, basic supplies like PPE have run short, and even the best minds in medicine cannot agree on how to stop the spread of the virus. The only thing worse than being sick or injured may be to have that illness or injury exacerbated by an error by a medical professional.
August 27, 2020—It’s a question many are now confronting, and it has nothing to do with the law: “When will we get paid?”
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Legal-Bay, the premier Pre Settlement Funding Company, announced today that they have expanded their car accident and personal injury departments due to the influx of new filings during the first half of 2020. Legal-Bay is one of the leading lawsuit loan companies in the industry, and offers a very fast approval process.
