Case Merit & Defensibility Score

Grounded in 20 years of closed-claim evidence, not a black box. Across the malpractice literature, payment tracks the merit of the care: studies find a claim is paid in roughly 19% of cases with little/no evidence of error vs. 84% with virtually-certain error (Studdert, NEJM 2006), ~80–90% of defensible claims are dropped without payment, and physicians win the large majority of weak-evidence trials. This tool turns those public priors into a transparent score. It is population-level decision support — not a guaranteed per-case dollar prediction.