Mass tort payouts aren't simple. Your payment process shouldn't make them harder.
Between lien resolution, points based allocation, deficiency claims, and settlements that can run for years, mass tort distributions carry a level of complexity most payout systems weren't built for. Whether your firm manages distribution in-house or works through a third-party claims administrator, Talli sits underneath the process handling payment itself so your team, or theirs, can focus on the case, not the check run.
A single settlement, thousands of individual outcomes.
Mass tort distributions don't move like a typical settlement. Every claimant's payment depends on their own facts — injury severity, lien exposure, documentation status and that complexity multiplies fast across a large claimant pool, no matter who's technically running the distribution.
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Liens don't resolve themselves, and they hold up everything behind them
Medicare, Medicaid, and private liens have to be identified, negotiated, and cleared before a claimant can be paid, and until that happens, their payment sits. Tracking that status across thousands of claimants in a spreadsheet is where distributions quietly stall, whether that spreadsheet lives with your firm or with an administrator you've hired.
02
Allocation isn't one number it's a formula, and formulas change
Points-based allocation, tiered injury categories, deficiency adjustments, the amount a claimant is owed can shift more than once before it's final. A payment process that isn't built to handle recalculation creates rework every time it does, and that rework often falls on whoever's closest to the payment rail.
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These distributions don't happen once, they happen over years
Claimants get added, deficiencies get cured, appeals get resolved, mass tort payouts are a rolling process, not a single event. Firms managing this in-house feel that as an ongoing operational drag; firms working through an administrator feel it as a loss of visibility into where their claimants actually stand.
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Every claimant is a different level of complexity, and they all need an answer
Some claimants are ready to be paid in a day. Others are waiting on a special needs trust, a guardian ad litem, or a structured settlement. Treating all of them the same way is how simple cases get delayed and complex ones get lost - regardless of which side of the engagement is holding the file.
How Talli Solves it
One payment layer, whether you run distribution yourself or someone runs it for you.
Talli isn't built to replace how your firm works - it's built to sit underneath it. Firms managing mass tort distribution in-house use Talli directly as their payment infrastructure. Firms working with a third-party claims administrator can put Talli in place as the payout rail the administrator runs on, giving the firm the same visibility and control without taking distribution in-house.
Payment optionality & digital delivery
Claimants choose how they're paid: ACH, PayPal, Venmo, prepaid card, gift card, or check , including support for structured settlements and special needs trusts where required. No forcing complex cases through a simple payout flow, and no dependency on whichever payout methods a given administrator happens to offer.
KYC & identity verification
Every claimant verified before funds move - critical when payments are large, and when guardians, trustees, or attorneys-in-fact may be receiving on a claimant's behalf.
Real-time payment visibility
See exactly where every claimant sits, lien clearance, allocation status, and payment issued, without chasing updates across law firm, lien resolution vendor, and claims administrator. If you're the firm and someone else is running distribution, this is the view you'd otherwise have to ask for.
Consolidated exception management
Claimants held up by a lien, a deficiency, or missing documentation sit in one queue with documented outreach, so nothing gets lost in a multi-year timeline, and nothing has to be reconstructed later to prove it wasn't, no matter who's fielding the claimant's questions.
Compliance & regulatory reporting
1099 generation, payment-level audit trails, and full accountings by claimant, by tier, or by distribution round — built for a process that regulators, courts, co-counsel, and your own firm will want to review more than once.
Why Talli
Complexity shouldn't slow down the claimants who are ready to be paid.
Works whether distribution is in-house or outsourced
Talli functions as standalone payment infrastructure for firms handling mass torts directly, or as the payout layer behind a third-party claims administrator, same platform, same visibility, either way.
Ready claimants get paid immediately, not on the batch schedule
A cleared claimant doesn't have to wait for the whole pool to catch up.
One system for the full life of the distribution
Handles new claimants, recalculated allocations, and multi-round payments without starting over each time.
Scale to thousands of claimants without scaling the team
Whether it's 500 claimants or 50,000, the process, and the headcount behind it doesn't change.
A complete record, claimant by claimant, from day one to final payment
Everything anyone would need to review - a lien resolution vendor, an administrator, co-counsel, a court is already there.
Case Study
How AB Data reduced their unclaimed funds liability with Talli.
“ Talli gave us the regulated payout rails we needed to move faster, reduce unclaimed funds, and give courts full confidence in how settlement money is being distributed."
Thomas R Glenn, President & CEO, AB Data
Key Results
34%
Increase in take-up across check-issued populations
60%
Reduction in unresolved exceptions and manual reissuance
100%
Fiduciary compliance record across all distribution cycles
Managing mass tort payouts in-house, or working through a claims administrator — we'll walk through how Talli fits either way, using a case like yours.
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