Lien Resolution and Settlement Administration Strategies for Better Client Outcomes

The mass tort lien process often gets treated differently than single event. Our message to you is that it shouldn’t be. It’s imperative to prepare, prepare, prepare. 

 

Ask your clients who insured them at any point since their injury-inducing event. That information can be used to fill in the blanks. This is where the mass tort process can diverge from single event. MASSIVE is able to fill in those blanks using “global resolution programs” that allow us to share huge amounts of data with Medicare, each Medicaid program, and some of the larger insurance aggregators, or subrogation companies.  

 

Mass tort has another wonderful advantage over single event cases when it comes to authorizations. Where it takes tremendous work to obtain HIPAA authorizations from each plaintiff, the mass tort process allows for a Qualified Protective Order (QPO) where the judge authorizes us for all plaintiffs in one signature. 

 

Finally, the mass tort lien resolution process can get messy because your definition of settlement may not match that of the lien holders. The lien holders often ask for final allocation amounts to each plaintiff before they finalize liens. This request is necessary in some of the global programs that rely on per plaintiff maximums as well as the Medicare global resolution programs. Be prepared for this timing. More importantly make sure your clients are aware that this delay exists and is often unavoidable.  

 

As you can see, mass tort lien resolution can be very similar to that of single event cases. It can also be very different. MASSIVE’s Chief Operating Officer, Ryan Weiner, will present on this topic October 13 at 3:45 PM PDT during the first live Mass Torts Made Perfect seminar in two years.  

 

Contact the experts at MASSIVE or stop by our booth (F7, just outside the main entrance) at the MTMP seminar if your firm needs help with lien resolution and settlement administration strategies.