Litigation Risk Transfer Solutions
Providing certainty in the uncertain world of litigation.
Our experienced team uses proprietary qualitative and quantitative analyses to provide corporate legal teams with customized solutions. We transfer the outcome risk of litigation in order to meet your specific legal needs and financial objectives.
We Are Experts at Analyzing Litigation Risk.
Litigation Risk Transfer Platform
Risk Settlements has created a proprietary, proven litigation underwriting platform that provides innovative insurance, funding and monetization solutions that transfer the litigation outcome risk for both defendants and plaintiffs.
Corporate Counsel & Legal Operations Professionals
We work with corporate counsel to identify litigation risks and opportunities backed by innovative risk transfer solutions.
Defense Counsel
We collaborate with defense counsel and their clients to address a variety of litigation issues and opportunities that fulfills all legal and financial objectives.
Insurance Brokers & Carriers
We help design settlement structures that fully cover class action and other litigation settlements within carriers’ existing liability policy limits.
Private Equity
We work with private equity companies and their portfolio companies to mitigate the risk of litigation to facilitate M&A and financing transactions as well as provide monetization opportunities by identifying litigation assets within the portfolio.
What We Do
Risk Settlements provides bespoke solutions for companies facing the uncertainty of litigation. We are the leader in providing comprehensive alternative litigation strategies, including class action settlement insurance, litigation buyout insurance, judgment preservation Insurance, adverse judgment insurance, litigation funding and claim monetization. Our team of experienced former litigators, insurance professionals, and risk mitigation specialists helps companies remove the financial and operational volatility arising out of litigation by transferring the outcome risk.
Case Studies
Waiting to Settle Cost a Company Millions
A company was facing consumer class actions in which it was defending five separate lawsuits pending in two states. Risk Settlements initially assisted the company in its efforts to settle the case precertification.
Preventing Bankruptcy Through Risk Transfer
In 2013, a class action lawsuit was filed against a manufacturer. Class plaintiffs alleged that design and manufacturing defects in certain of the company’s branded products caused two distinct safety risks.
FLSA Litigation Jeopardizes M&A Deal
After months of heated negotiations over every detail in a stock purchase, a PE-owned HR company was finalizing the closing documents when it was served with a lawsuit alleging that it failed to comply with California’s wage-and-hour laws. Suddenly the company was facing the prospect of years of litigation, uncapped legal expenses, statutory penalties, private attorney general fines, all of which represented $11 million in exposure.
Latest Blog Posts
Massage Envy: Are All Vouchers Now Coupons Under CAFA?
The Ninth Circuit’s October 2021 McKinney-Drobnis v. Massage Envy Franchising decision might signal the death knell for voucher-based class action settlements that are not considered “coupon” settlements under CAFA. If this settlement cannot...
Briseño v. Henderson: Can the Parties Salvage the Settlement?
The Ninth Circuit’s June 2021 decision in Briseño v. Henderson, which reversed and remanded a claims-made settlement involving the ConAgra-owned Wesson Oil’s use of a “100% natural” label, attracted attention for its colorful language, including...
Litigation Buyout Insurance: How Does It Work?
In July 2021, Risk Settlements co-presented a PLI webinar on how litigation buyout insurance (LBO insurance) can help keep companies “deal ready.” Following up on that presentation, we thought a brief article detailing the nuts and bolts of...
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