Harmed by a product? You may qualify for an active national claim.

A mass tort is a group of individual lawsuits over the same product or exposure, consolidated for pre-trial handling but each valued on its own facts. That is the difference that matters to a claimant: unlike a class action, your recovery reflects your own injury, your own exposure history and your own medical record.

Mass tort or class action?

• Class actionOne case brought on behalf of everyone in a defined class. A single judgment or settlement is divided among class members, usually in similar amounts. It suits large numbers of small, near-identical losses.
• Mass tortMany individual cases, coordinated for efficiency. Each keeps its own facts, its own damages and its own value — which is why they are used for personal injuries, where two claimants with the same diagnosis can have very different cases.
• What it means for youIn a mass tort you are a claimant, not a class member. Your exposure history and medical records are the case, and they have to be gathered properly.

What an eligibility review actually involves

For most of these litigations the threshold questions are the same:

• the product or exposure — what, for how long, and when;
• the diagnosis — what it is, when it was made, and by whom;
• proof of use or exposure — purchase history, employment records, service records, prescriptions;
• the filing deadline in your state, which is not the same everywhere.

Cooper Law does not pay for referrals and does not buy claims from lead brokers. If someone contacted you out of the blue about a settlement you had not heard of, be careful — and feel free to ask us about it.