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Matthew Garretson

Matthew Garretson received a BA from Yale University, a law degree at Kentucky’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law and a Masters in Theology from Chicago Theological Seminary.

Garretson has served as the special master or administrator of settlement funds and crisis response programs through the country in environmental disaster, product liability, civil rights, sexual abuse and other cases. In this capacity, Garretson has substantial firsthand experience with the design, administration and/or oversight of hundreds of class action and mass tort resolution programs. Further, he has extensive experience adjudicating and allocating claims as a court-appointed neutral and has modernized the approach to such claims adjudication using the power of clinical linguistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Experience

In re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, MDL Docket Nos. MC100, 102-03 (S.D.N.Y.), where he served as the Allocation Neutral for claims asserted against the World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company, Inc. relating to the September 11th Consolidated Cases.

Deepwater Horizon Litigation, MDL 2179 (E.D. La.), where he led the design and implementation of a 21-year periodic medical evaluation program that involved over 22,000 eligible class members entitled to claim compensation and/or medical consultation services.

National Football League Players’ Concussion Injury Litigation, MDL 2323 (E.D. Pa.), where he led the design and implementation of a medical evaluation program comprised of a national network of medical service providers who provided baseline assessments of neurocognitive function and follow-up care for an estimated 17,000 players over 10+ years.

Vioxx Product Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1657 (E.D. La.), where he served as the Lien Resolution Administrator tasked with resolving health care reimbursement claims (or “liens”) asserted against over 10,000 claimants by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), all 53 state and territory Medicaid agencies; and several other governmental healthcare payers, such as the Veterans Affairs, TRICARE, and Indian Health Services.

In re Flint Water Cases, 5:16-cv-10444 (E.D. Mich.), where he was appointed in February 2023 to bring unique claim adjudication and allocation technology, claims adjudication skills, and processing knowledge to bolster the existing administration framework in In re Flint Water Case.

In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2873 (D.S.C.), where he was appointed to serve as Special Master to oversee the DuPont, 3M, BASF and Tyco Public Water System settlements.

In re 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2885 (N.D. FL), where he was appointed as Allocation Special Master to design and oversee the allocation methodology to calculate settlement awards to over 250,000 eligible claimants.