A plaintiff fact sheet is a court-ordered form capturing product use or exposure period, injury and diagnosis, treating providers, employment, and relevant medical history, served with authorizations permitting record collection.
It functions as combined interrogatories and document requests across an entire inventory.
Alternative Names:
PFS, Claimant Fact Sheet
Why it Matters?
Fact sheets are the mechanism by which a defendant separates supportable claims from unsupportable ones without individual discovery in thousands of cases. The deficiency and show cause process built on them is the primary tool for dismissing claims lacking product identification, injury proof, or timely filing. Negotiating the fact sheet's content at the outset determines how much useful screening data the process actually produces.
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