How Mass Claims Settlements Can Help Restore a Sense of Agency and Dignity in Victims -Jordy Feldman

Описание: Our special guest this week, Jordana ("Jordy") H. Feldman will Present on:
How Mass Claims Settlements Can Help Restore a Sense of Agency and Dignity in Victims

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By definition, settlements arising from mass tragedies address a large number of claims, often after years of contentious litigation. How can Special Masters and settlement administrators balance equity and efficiency when determining compensation and allocating damages among eligible claimants?

The sheer volume of claims can make individualization a challenge. But an individualized approach (to varying extents) can be critically important in validating a claimant’s experience and assuring a claimant’s sense of justice. We’ll discuss what that looks like, the many considerations at play when designing and administering mass claims programs, and how the guiding principles in those programs apply in the traditional mediation context.

Our presenter:

Ms. Feldman has spent most of her career serving as an independent neutral, designing and administering litigation-alternative mass claims resolution programs and mediating highly sensitive, emotional disputes. She has extensive experience in cases involving sexual abuse and sexual assault, personal injury and wrongful death, having run programs to resolve claims of sexual abuse against Jeffrey Epstein and his estate and against clergy and faith-based organizations, as well as serving for many years as Deputy Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

She founded her own claims resolution company, Davarker Advisors, LLC after leaving the Justice Department in 2019, and recently joined JAMS in New York, continuing her mass claims work and more traditional mediation practice. Drawing on her experience and seeing a void in law school curricula, she also developed a first-of-its-kind course on victim compensation funds as alternatives to litigation, which she teaches as an adjunct professor at NYU Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.