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Claims Adjuster

Litigation Management

Enhances◐ 1–3 years

What You Do Today

Manage litigated claims — review defense counsel reports, approve litigation plans and budgets, attend mediations, respond to discovery requests. When a claim goes to suit, your role shifts from adjuster to file manager coordinating with attorneys.

AI That Applies

AI-assisted litigation timeline tracking and budget monitoring. NLP analysis of defense counsel reports for key updates and action items. Predictive models for trial outcomes based on judge, jurisdiction, and case facts.

Technologies

How It Works

For litigation management, the system draws on the relevant operational data and applies the appropriate analytical models. A language model processes the input by identifying relevant context, generating appropriate responses, and structuring the output to match the expected format and domain conventions. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context. The strategic decisions.

What Changes

Defense counsel reports get auto-summarized into action items instead of buried in 15-page narratives. Budget tracking becomes proactive — the AI flags when legal spend is trending above similar cases.

What Stays

The strategic decisions. Settle before trial or roll the dice? Accept the mediator's proposal? Approve the expert witness budget? Litigation management is high-stakes decision-making under uncertainty.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for litigation management, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how litigation management works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: The strategic decisions. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support NLP Document Processing tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long litigation management takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your claims director or VP Claims

What data do we already have that could improve how we handle litigation management?

They're setting the automation strategy for your unit

your SIU lead

Who on our team has the deepest experience with litigation management, and what tools are they already using?

AI fraud detection changes how investigations are triggered and prioritized

a claims adjuster with 15+ years experience

If we brought in AI tools for litigation management, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?

Their judgment sets the benchmark that AI tools are measured against

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.