Investors in Litigation Financing Target Commercial Auto October 31, 2017 By Denise Johnson Investor-funded litigation is not new but it is expanding its reach in commercial auto cases, according to experts in the...
Pelvic Mesh Maker Alleges Doctors, Lawyers, Litigation Funders Schemed to Inflate Damage Claims May 23, 2016 By Alison Frankel and Jessica Dye American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing “a pyramid of businessmen, doctors...
Injury Claims Become Commodities with Litigation Funding, Claim Aggregation October 26, 2015 By Paul Barrett For all the black robes and ceremony, the American legal system often operates more like a factory assembly line than...
Hedge Fund Financing of Lawsuits Draws Interest from Senators August 31, 2015 By Paul Barret Hedge funds have been speculating on lawsuits, a new form of financial engineering that some business interests say encourages wasteful...
States Need to Regulate Litigation Financing Industry: Professor January 11, 2012 Some invest their money in stocks, some in bonds, some in real estate. Increasingly, investors are also putting their money...