Automated consumer claim evaluation and networked database system, with automated electronic consumer contracting of meritorious legal claims and automated consumer rejection and malpractice avoidance system for non-meritorious legal claims

摘要

The invention described herein is a computerized and network-based method and system that automates the process of evaluating the merits of a consumer's legal claim, and based on the evaluation concerning the merits of a legal claim, automates electronic rejection of the legal claim or electronic acceptance of the consumer's legal claim based on the E-SIGN Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act allowing for such business model and technological innovation. The system and method collects claim information from consumers who have potential product liability claims and automatically scores and evaluates their claims according to factual and medical indicators established for that specific product claim. Once a claim has been scored, the system determines whether to reject the consumer for legal representation or attempt to retain the consumer. If a consumer is marked for rejection by the system, the system automatically generates and sends to the consumer an electronic mail notifying the consumer that the law firm has decided to not to represent the consumer. If a consumer has been marked for retention, the system will automatically generate and send to the consumer, via electronic mail, an electronic contract that the consumer may digitally sign online to retain the services of the law firm.