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Every lien case costs your firm $1,000.
It doesn't have to.

CaseZero automates lien resolution for PI firms — correct calculations, drafted letters, full disbursement waterfall. What takes 4 hours takes 20 minutes.

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12,309
PI cases analyzed
18.6%
carry at least one lien
$2,808
avg lien per case
$983
additional client recovery
20 min
vs 4 hrs manual
How it works

Three steps. Correct every time.

Built for Maryland, DC, and Virginia — jurisdiction-specific rules baked in from day one.

1

Calculate

Correct statutory reductions for every lien type — Ahlborn, Medicare MSP, ERISA, LOP. Jurisdiction-specific for MD, DC, and VA. No estimates.

2

Draft

Reduction letters generated automatically for each lienholder. Paralegal reviews; attorney approves before anything goes out. You stay in control.

3

Track & Close

Negotiation tracking, response logging, live disbursement waterfall showing exactly what the client takes home — updated in real time.

Real scenarios

See exactly what changes
at your firm.

Pick a situation you recognize. We'll show you what happens without CaseZero — and what happens with it.

👩 Maria, Paralegal — 8 cases settled this week. 3 have liens.

It's Monday. Maria walks in to find 8 newly settled cases on her desk. She opens the first file. Medicare lien. She opens the second. Hospital bill. Third one — another Medicare. She knows what this means: the next two days are gone.

❌ Without CaseZero
9:00am
Opens each file manually. Hunts for the lien letters buried in the case documents. Some are missing — calls the hospital billing department.
11:30am
Pulls up a spreadsheet. Tries to calculate the Medicare reduction. Googles "Ahlborn formula Maryland." Gets three different answers.
2:00pm
Drafts reduction letters from scratch using last year's template. Hopes the statute hasn't changed. Sends to attorney for review.
4:30pm
Attorney sends back two letters with corrections. Maria redrafts. Day is gone. 5 other cases untouched.
Total
7+ hours. $1,750 in paralegal cost. Calculations may still be wrong.
✓ With CaseZero
9:00am
CaseZero pulls all 3 lien cases from Filevine overnight. Lien amounts, types, and jurisdictions already identified.
9:10am
Ahlborn reductions calculated automatically for each Medicare lien. Hospital LOP negotiation floor set. All math shown with citations.
9:18am
Three reduction letters drafted and ready — formatted correctly for each lienholder. Maria reviews them in the queue.
9:25am
Attorney approves with one click. Letters go out. Disbursement waterfalls generated for all 3 cases. Done.
Total
25 minutes. $375 in paralegal time. Maria spends the rest of the day on intake.
Time saved6+ hours
Labor saved$1,375
CaseZero cost$1,500 (3 cases × $500)
Net firm savings$875 + accurate
👨‍⚖️ David, Attorney — $85,000 settlement. Medicare says they're owed $4,200.

David's client was hit by a drunk driver. After two years of litigation, they settled for $85,000. The insurance policy limit was $100,000. Medicare paid $18,600 in medical bills during treatment and now they want $4,200 back from the settlement. Most attorneys just pay it. They shouldn't.

❌ Without CaseZero
The problem
Medicare is a federal lienholder. Federal law says their recovery must be proportionate to what the client actually recovered vs what they could have recovered. Almost no one does this math.
What happens
Paralegal sees "$4,200 Medicare lien." Writes a check for $4,200. Case closed. Client gets what's left.
The reality
The client settled for 85% of the policy limit. Under Ahlborn, Medicare is only entitled to 85% of what they paid — not the full amount. That's a $3,570 lien, not $4,200.
Result
Client overpays Medicare by $630. Happens on hundreds of cases a year. Nobody notices.
✓ With CaseZero
Step 1
CaseZero reads the settlement amount ($85,000), the policy limit ($100,000), and Medicare's claim ($4,200).
Step 2
Calculates the proration factor: $85,000 ÷ $100,000 = 85%. Applies it to Medicare's claim: $4,200 × 85% = $3,570.
Step 3
Drafts the Ahlborn reduction letter to Medicare citing the correct federal statute. Attorney reviews. Sends it.
Result
Client keeps an extra $630. Attorney looks thorough. Letter took 18 minutes to generate.
Medicare claimed$4,200
Correct amount owed$3,570
Money recovered for client$630
Across 238 pipeline cases$149,940 left on the table
😰 Karen, Senior Paralegal — one case, three lienholders, three different rule sets.

Karen has been a paralegal for 11 years. She's seen everything. But this case makes her stomach drop: a client hit by a delivery truck, treated at a hospital on a Letter of Protection, covered by Medicare, and her health insurance is an ERISA self-funded plan through her employer. Three lienholders. Three completely different federal and state rules. One wrong move and the firm could be liable.

❌ Without CaseZero
Lien 1: Medicare
Federal law. Ahlborn proportionate-share reduction. Karen has to calculate the proration, write the letter, cite the statute. 90 minutes.
Lien 2: Hospital LOP
Maryland Letter of Protection. Negotiable. Karen has to know what the floor is, draft a counter-offer letter, track the back-and-forth. 2 hours.
Lien 3: ERISA Plan
This is the dangerous one. Is the plan fully-insured or self-funded? That single question determines whether the plan has full reimbursement rights or not. Karen calls the plan administrator. Waits two days for a callback. Wrong answer = malpractice exposure.
Total
6+ hours across 3 days. Attorney reviews everything twice. Still not 100% sure on ERISA. Hope for the best.
✓ With CaseZero
Lien 1: Medicare
Ahlborn calc runs automatically. Settlement-to-liability ratio applied. Reduction letter drafted with correct federal citation. 4 minutes.
Lien 2: Hospital LOP
CaseZero flags it as negotiable under Maryland law. Sets the negotiation floor based on comparable case data. Counter-offer letter drafted and ready. 6 minutes.
Lien 3: ERISA Plan
CaseZero identifies the plan type from the summary plan description. Self-funded = full reimbursement rights, no reduction. Flags it clearly for attorney attention with the exact legal basis. No guessing. 8 minutes.
Total
20 minutes. All three lienholders handled correctly. Waterfall generated. Attorney signs off. Done.
Lienholders handled3
Rule sets appliedFederal + MD + ERISA
Time: without6+ hours
Time: with CaseZero20 minutes
The math

ROI on day one.

$500 per case. Save $500 in labor. Put $983 back in your client's pocket.

WITHOUT CASEZERO

Paralegal time4+ hours
Labor cost$1,000/case
AccuracyEstimated
LettersManual
Client recoveryBase

WITH CASEZERO

Review time< 20 minutes
Cost$500/case
AccuracyCorrect every time
LettersAuto-drafted
Client recovery+$983
The data

Not estimates. Not surveys.
12,309 real cases.

Derived from a single DMV firm's Filevine case history. Every CaseZero client deepens the dataset.

1,154
lien cases identified
238
pipeline cases ready now
$119K
day-one opportunity at one firm
$1.13M
total recovery unlocked across history
Built by

Domain first. Always.

JL

James Lee

Founder, CaseZero · DMV

20+ years building AI systems at scale. Top 5% LLM trainer across Amazon, Nvidia, Google, and xAI. CaseZero was built by someone who processed this problem firsthand — from the inside — and knew exactly what it would take to solve it correctly.

AI Systems · 20+ yrs LLM Trainer · Top 5% DMV Legal Market Domain Expert
Common questions

We hear this a lot.
Here's the honest answer.

Real objections from real firms. Answered plainly.

We already have a paralegal who handles liens.
Good — CaseZero isn't a replacement, it's a force multiplier. Your paralegal still reviews everything and your attorney approves before anything goes out. The difference is she spends 20 minutes on a lien case instead of 4 hours. That's 3+ hours she gets back — for intake, client communication, or the next file. At 18 lien cases a month, that's 54 paralegal hours returned. Every month.
How do I know the calculations are correct?
Every calculation shows its math — the proration factor, the statute it's applied, the reduction amount, and the legal citation behind it. Nothing is a black box. Your attorney reviews the output and approves it. If something looks wrong, you catch it before anything goes out. That's exactly how it's designed to work.
We've been burned by legal tech before.
Fair. Most legal tech is built by people who've never processed a lien. CaseZero was built from inside a DMV PI practice — trained on 12,309 real cases, not demos. That's why the early access model exists: 5 firms, white-glove setup, no long-term commitment. If it doesn't work for your practice, you walk away. No contract.
We don't use Filevine.
Filevine is required for the early access cohort because that's where the data integration lives. Other case management integrations are on the roadmap — Clio, MyCase, and others. If you're not on Filevine but want to stay in the loop when your platform is supported, drop your email and we'll reach out when it's ready.
We already negotiate liens ourselves and do fine.
You might be — but the data suggests most firms leave money on the table without realizing it. The average firm overpays Medicare by 35% on lien cases because the Ahlborn calculation isn't applied. That's $983 per case going to the lienholder instead of your client. It's not a failure — it's a math problem nobody told you existed.
$500 per case feels expensive.
The alternative costs $1,000 — that's the paralegal labor on a manual lien case at $250/hr over 4 hours. CaseZero cuts that cost in half and puts $983 back in your client's pocket on top of it. The ROI is positive on case one. The only scenario where $500 doesn't make sense is if you have zero lien cases — and 18.6% of PI cases carry at least one.
Why trust this

Not a demo. Not a pitch.
Real case data.

The numbers below come from a single DMV firm's Filevine history — 12,309 cases, analyzed in full.

12,309
PI cases analyzed from a single DMV firm — not a survey, not an estimate
1,154
lien cases identified within that dataset — 18.6% of all cases
$983
additional client recovery per lien case after correct Ahlborn reduction
$1.13M
total additional recovery unlocked across that firm's lien case history
🔒
The data moat. This slide was generated from a single firm's case history. Every CaseZero client that onboards adds to the dataset. At 10 firms, CaseZero will hold the most comprehensive PI lien outcome database in plaintiff-side law in the DMV — with jurisdiction-specific reduction patterns no competitor can replicate.
FAQ

Straight answers.

Everything you'd want to know before getting started.

Medicare MSP, Medicaid, hospital Letters of Protection (LOP), ERISA fully-insured and self-funded plans, and private health insurance liens. Jurisdiction-specific rules for Maryland, DC, and Virginia are built in — including Maryland Ahlborn proportionate-share, DC MedPay/PIP hold rules, and Virginia ERISA plan-type analysis.
Everything. CaseZero generates the reduction calculation and the draft letter — your attorney reviews both before anything is sent to a lienholder. The attorney approves the math, approves the letter, and signs off. CaseZero handles the 4-hour prep work. The attorney handles the 5-minute review.
CaseZero connects to your Filevine account and pulls case data automatically — settlement amounts, liability limits, lien amounts, and lienholder information. No manual data entry. The integration is set up during onboarding and I handle all of it.
For early access firms, onboarding is white-glove. I set up the integration, review your first batch of lien cases with you, and make sure everything looks right before you run independently. Most firms are live within a week.
Yes. Case data is processed under a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and is not used to train models or shared with third parties. Data handling follows standard legal tech security practices including encryption at rest and in transit.
Your attorney reviews and approves every output before it goes anywhere — that's the safeguard. CaseZero shows its math transparently so errors are visible before they become problems. If something looks off, you don't send it.
Not yet. Early access is focused on DMV jurisdiction firms because that's where the statutory rules are built and validated. Other jurisdictions are on the roadmap — reach out if you're outside the DMV and we can talk about what's coming.
Early access is $500 per lien case — no subscription, no minimum commitment. Post-early-access pricing hasn't been finalized. Early access firms will have input on that and will be grandfathered into favorable terms.
Early access

Five firms.
White-glove setup.

$500/case. I handle onboarding. You approve everything. No risk, no long-term commitment.

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