Claim Aggregation
Assembling many small, individually uneconomic claims into a portfolio with meaningful leverage.
Aggregation is the economic engine common to class actions, MDLs, and mass arbitration. An individual claim worth a few hundred dollars will never be litigated on its own; ten thousand of them, held by one firm, become a portfolio with real settlement value. Mass arbitration achieves aggregation without a procedural aggregation device, by exploiting the per-claim cost structure of arbitration itself.
See also
- Mass ArbitrationHundreds or thousands of individually filed, legally identical arbitration demands brought against one respondent at once.
- Negative-Value ClaimA claim worth less than the cost of pursuing it individually.
- Class ActionA representative action in which a named plaintiff litigates on behalf of a defined class.
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