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
Judge Bibas’ Recent Opinion in Design With Friends v. Target Continues the Trend of Courts Limiting Discovery into Funding Arrangements
One of the biggest open questions in litigation finance is the degree to which funding documents and related communications are discoverable in funded litigation. As of last week, the industry had received helpful guidance from trial courts, from...
Louisiana’s New Litigation Finance Disclosure Statute and the Institutional Preference for Plaintiff Firms Over Litigation Funders
Litigation funding has grown tremendously over the last 10 years and has naturally garnered significant interest from politicians and the public at large. As this awareness has increased, one of the more interesting consequent proposals has been...
The Comprehensive Guide to Litigation Finance
Here at Certum, we believe two things about litigation funding are true. First, litigation finance can help litigants and law firms better achieve their legal and business goals by shifting the risk and expense of affirmative litigation. Second,...
Listen to Our Latest Podcast:
Litigation Finance – An Academic Perspective from Penn Carey Law School
In the latest episode of the Alternative Litigation Strategy Podcast, I had a fascinating discussion with Professor Tom Baker and Lecturer in Law, Will Marra, about their litigation finance course at the Penn Carey Law School. We explored the history, economics,...