How to Reach Top Settlements for your Seriously Injured Clients

We know you will do anything you can to reach top settlements for your injured clients. Catastrophically-injured plaintiffs need extra support. That’s why we’ve created MASSIVE Life Care Plans (LCPs).   Our LCPs, assess your plaintiff’s needs and coordinate with treating providers and the plaintiff’s family to make sure all future care needs are individually…

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MASSIVE’s Medical Cost Projection Increased Settlement Value to over $900k

If you’re looking for a powerful tool to increase your settlement outcomes, here’s just one example of how a future medical cost projection can help.   A worker’s compensation attorney in South Carolina contracted MASSIVE to prepare a Medical Cost Projection for their client. The state employee had fallen when trying to help a patient.…

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Valuable Tools to Increase Settlement Outcomes

How do you determine future medical costs for your case? Some firms ‘guess-timate’ and lose out on an accurate picture of these costs. Here at MASSIVE, we know how to protect your case and increase your settlement outcomes!   Medical Cost Projections (MCP) are an invaluable tool used to forecast future medical costs and uncover…

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MASSIVE Increased Settlement by $110k with Medical Cost Projection

Recently, a worker’s compensation firm asked us to review one of their cases. Their plaintiff required a shoulder replacement. The defense initially offered $100,000 based almost entirely on past medical bills.   Our nurse reviewed the documentation and created a Medical Cost Projection that accurately projected the cost for surgery, recovery, follow-up, and all related…

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Future Medical Allocations 101

If you’re looking for a way to increase your settlements (and who isn’t?), then Future Medical Allocations (FMAs) could be the answer.   FMAs are a great leverage tool and are used to provide client protection and maximize case value. They safeguard a plaintiff’s future benefits and protect the firm from unnecessary risk. Any case…

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What Kind of Cases Benefit from a Future Medical Allocation?

What Kind of Cases Benefit from a Future Medical Allocation?

Do you have questions about what kind of cases benefit from projecting out future medical costs?   Let’s take a look at a few scenarios:  Any case that has any future care with some treatment and Rx. If you feel like you can increase your case by $5k, you can utilize our allocation. This includes…

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Do you need an MSA? Questions to Ask

Wondering if you need an MSA for your Auto or Liability case? Medicare Set-Asides are a vehicle to make certain that Medicare maintains its “secondary payer” status. If payment can reasonably be expected to be made under an automobile or liability insurance policy, they are defined in the statute as a “primary plan.” It then…

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What Does an MSA Cover?

Do you have cases that need a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA)? Or maybe a Medical Cost Projection is a better fit? Let’s review what IS and IS NOT in a Medicare Set-Aside.    Medicare Set-Asides cover the basics of medically necessary treatments and prescriptions:  Medicare Part A Covers: Hospital care, home health care, skilled nursing facility,…

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Why Private Insurance isn’t a Replacement for MSAs

Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs) are not required by law. Rather, MSAs are designed to prevent Medicare from paying for case-related care after a settlement. But wait, doesn’t other insurance prevent Medicare from paying for that future medical care too?   It does. If it will pay.   Many health insurance plans will not cover case-related care…

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Medicare Set-Aside Basics

Medicare Set-Asides (or “MSAs”) are a construct created because the Medicare Secondary Payer Act makes it illegal for Medicare to pay for case-related treatment. Of course, this is limited to circumstances where a primary payer exists, such as a Workers’ Compensation carrier, a No-Fault carrier, or a liability defendant. But MSAs don’t exist under the law. They…

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