Mass Torts Services
Your Trusted Partner to Help Navigate the Complexities of Mass Tort Settlement Administration
Our team specializes in providing top-tier services for handling mass tort settlements efficiently and effectively.
Alongside our established expertise in mass tort litigation, we also focus on product liability mass actions and drug medical device disputes, ensuring that law firms and their clients receive comprehensive guidance through every phase of settlement administration. Our support for both large corporations and individual claimants, combined with critical insights into pharmaceutical medical device suits, allows us to cover the complex legal challenges often presented in action mass tort proceedings. We understand that successful navigation of these issues requires deep knowledge of the law, advanced technology, and a seamless administrative process that addresses every step, from initial filings to final disbursement.
Comprehensive Mass Tort Solutions
Mass Tort Settlements Claims Administration
In both large-scale consolidated and smaller inventory-by-inventory mass tort settlements, we engineer and deliver comprehensive programs that provide prompt and transparent service in strict compliance with the parties’ requirements.
Mass Tort Fund Administration and Payments
Epiq works with financial institutions to implement QSF agreements according to MSA terms and prevent unnecessary fees and disbursement requirements, as well as ensure compliance with Treasury regulations.
Mass Tort Healthcare Lien Resolution Services
Epiq’s years of experience working with Medicare, Medicaid, military, and other government and private insurers enables us to consistently achieve the most favorable lien resolution.
Medical Monitoring Services
Epiq is the nation’s leader in administering complex, high-profile medical monitoring clinical programs and clinical studies, providing expert medical monitoring services.
MMSEA Section 111 Mandatory Insurer Reporting
Trust our expert team to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with MMSEA regulations.
Epiq Expert Series
In this series, our experts will demonstrate their knowledge of trends in the industry and how they and their team members approach these developments.Why Partner with Epiq?
Long-Standing Reputation and Vast Experience
- Our reputation as the global leader in class action administration and mass tort managed services has been reinforced through the successful management of some of the largest and most complex mass tort settlements in the world.
Advanced Technology and Expertise
- Our deep bench of expertise, advanced technologies, and consultative approach provide the foundation for our comprehensive services to cover every aspect of the settlement process from notice of settlement through disbursement of funds, delivering a seamless experience.
In addition to traditional class actions, we excel at managing liability mass torts that span multiple jurisdictions, including district court district and court eastern district venues. We serve as a reliable partner for law firms by streamlining multi-district litigation (MDL) tasks, handling sensitive medical devices data, and providing min readpublished articles and supportive resources to guide counsel through every detail of product liability and tort litigation. Our focus extends beyond the administrative tasks to include ongoing legal consultation and best practices, helping each client and their legal counsel approach mass tort litigation with confidence.
Learn more about Epiq's Mass Tort Settlement Administrative Services.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Under a global reimbursement agreement, CMS establishes reimbursement values based on actual Medicare-paid claims data. These values are predetermined and uniformly applied across all claimants participating in the settlement program. This framework introduces standardized caps and offsets, reduces procedural complexity and ambiguity, and facilitates the timely resolution of Medicare’s recovery interests
The VA's Debt Management Center handles benefit overpayments. The Office of General Counsel provides legal advice. The Consolidated Patient Account Centers (CPACs) is the specific department that focuses on recovering costs from third-party health plans.
We urge you not to reach out to the VA’s Debt Management Center or the Office of General Counsel as doing so can lead to confusing or contradictory information being shared. Epiq has experts collaborating with a talented team at the VA to coordinate the verification, investigation, and resolution of any potential obligations that are identified.
While each agency has its own timeline for resolution, the process generally follows a consistent sequence:
- Obtain entitlement results
- Receive claims
- Dispute claims
- Negotiate final amount
- Receive final demand
- Issue payment
- Government healthcare liens such as Medicare (Part A and Part B), Medicare (Part C), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), TRICARE, and Medicaid. Also included in the category of government liens are those asserted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), TRICARE, and Indian Health Services (HIS) (collectively referred to as “other government liens”).
- Federal Employee Plans
- Private Insurers
Settlements include medical monitoring to provide plaintiffs with long-term care and compensation for potential future health issues caused by a defendant's past actions, such as exposure to toxic substances or dangerous products. This remedy is granted when plaintiffs are at increased risk of future disease but may not yet have a demonstrable injury, ensuring they receive necessary periodic testing and treatment to detect and mitigate illness, thus aligning a remedy with the long-term nature of the harm.
Fund administration involves the impartial management of a Qualified Settlement Fund (QSF), including establishing the fund, preparing legal and tax documents, managing and investing the funds, disbursing payments to claimants and attorneys, coordinating with various parties, and performing financial reporting to ensure tax compliance and a fair, efficient resolution for all involved.
The acronym MMSEA stands for the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007. This law is a crucial component of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) program, which determines which entity pays for a Medicare beneficiary's medical expenses first. The purpose of Section 111 is to ensure that Medicare is reimbursed for payments it has made for a beneficiary's medical care when another insurer or liable party is responsible for that payment under the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) rules.
A global reimbursement agreement with CMS is a structured arrangement that assigns fixed reimbursement values to settlements involving injuries categorized under defined compensable classifications. These agreements are designed to facilitate the efficient resolution of Medicare’s recovery interests in mass tort and large-scale litigation matters. By establishing clear parameters for reimbursement, they enhance predictability, reduce administrative burden, and promote consistency across cases for all stakeholders involved.
A private lien resolution program is a process established to handle Medicare Part C and private liens that may exist against settlement funds. If required by the settlement or preferred by the parties, we negotiate terms with experienced recovery contractors to manage this process. Typically, such programs can address 80-90% of the private market, streamlining lien resolution and reducing delays. Recently, we have secured multiple agreements with major recovery contractors, including Rawlings, Hill Hill Carter, Equiam, and Optumn, ensuring thorough and efficient lien resolution for all parties involved.
Lien resolution refers to the process of settling reimbursement claims for medical treatment costs that have been paid by an insurance carrier. This process typically involves the identification, audit, negotiation, and payment of liens associated with personal injury settlements. Lienholders may include governmental entities such as Medicare, the Veterans Administration, and Medicaid, as well as private healthcare plans—often represented by third-party recovery agents—that possess statutory or contractual rights to recover expenses incurred for treatment related to the injuries alleged in the settlement. Fulfillment of lienholder obligations, particularly those of Medicare, is commonly a condition precedent to the final disbursement of settlement funds.
If your client notifies you that they receive or have received medical benefits from an “other government” statutory lienholder, please secure the following information:
For TRICARE:
Military branch, Sponsor (if not the military member), Sponsor SSN, Final injury and injury date (the other governmental statutory lienholders will pull only
specific claims related to this date)
For VA:
Military branch, Sponsor (if not the military member), Sponsor SSN, Final injury and injury date (the other governmental statutory lienholders will pull only
specific claims related to this date), Facility treated (the VA will only verify lien information for the specific facilities treated)
For IHS:
Tribal affiliation, Final injury and injury date (the other governmental statutory lienholders will pull only specific claims related to this date), Facility/Providers treated (IHS will only verify lien information for the specific facilities and providers treated)
Global reimbursement agreements with CMS have been implemented across several high-profile settlement programs over the years. These include legacy matters such as Seroquel, Avandia, and Asbestos, as well as more recent programs involving, Roundup, Transvaginal Mesh (TVM), Hernia Mesh – Atrium, and Boy Scouts of America (General and Expedited tracks).
These agreements reflect CMS’s ongoing efforts to streamline the resolution of Medicare’s recovery interests in complex, large-scale litigation.