Litigation Risk Transfer Solutions
Providing certainty in the uncertain world of litigation.
Our experienced team uses proprietary qualitative and quantitative analyses to provide companies, litigants, and law firms with customized solutions. We transfer the outcome risk of litigation in order to meet your specific legal, business, and financial objectives.
We Are Experts at Analyzing Litigation Risk.
About Our Litigation Risk Transfer Platform
Certum Group 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.
Insurance Solutions
Affirmative Funding Solutions
What We Do
Certum Group 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.
Corporate Counsel & Legal Operations Professionals
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.
Case Studies
Litigation Buyout Insurance: A Case Study
Defending litigation is ultimately an exercise in risk management. So how do companies manage to protect themselves? In the context of a company preparing for sale, litigation can often delay or in some cases halt the transaction. There are a...
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.
Latest Blog Posts
The Increasing Danger of Fraudulent Claims in Class Action Settlements
In 2019, my colleague, Kevin Skrzysowski, wrote on this site about the risks of a consumer product class action settlement going viral. At that time, he was describing how feeder websites, social media, and the internet were all contributing to...
How Do Companies and In-House Departments Assess Legal Risk?
Certum Group, which provides bespoke risk transfer solutions for companies facing the uncertainty of litigation, has launched its second annual Litigation Risk Survey to understand how companies and in-house departments assess litigation risk. Last...
Claims-Made Settlements Are More Common Than You Think
Class action lawsuits are usually resolved with one of two settlement structures: common-fund settlements or claims-made settlements. A simple way to think about the difference between the two is that the former is for a fixed amount while the cost...
Listen to Our Latest Podcast:
The New Fraud Phenomena in Class Action Settlement Administration
Class action claims administration is currently threatened by unprecedented fraud. Over the past year digital fraud from foreign agents, chat bots, GPT software, and other sources have wreaked havoc on settlement administration. Listen to episode 21 of the Alternative...
