11,000 cases. A Special Master appointed. Bellwethers in 2027.
MDL 3060 in the Northern District of Illinois is now one of the largest mass torts in the country — over 11,000 pending cases and growing at roughly 250 per month. An NIH Sister Study found that women who used chemical hair straighteners more than four times annually were 2.55 times more likely to develop uterine cancer. The science is solid and getting stronger.
Judge Mary M. Rowland appointed a Special Master in April 2025 to facilitate settlement discussions. Revlon has already set aside $44 million in bankruptcy. Daubert motions are in, bellwether trials are expected in 2027, and projected settlements for cancer claims run $150,000–$750,000 per claimant.
The bottleneck is intake. Claims without documented product usage history, cancer diagnosis records, and medical provider information are liabilities, not assets. Case Compass solves that.
See Case Compass working hair relaxer claims
AI scoring, Waypoint criteria, and automated follow-up — built to process high volumes of MDL claims.
Hair relaxer intake breaks in the same three places
High ad spend fills your funnel. Bad intake means most of those leads go nowhere.
Claimants can't name the product
Most women know they used "a hair relaxer" but not the brand, the manufacturer, or whether it's even a named defendant. Your intake has to help them identify it — not just ask.
Medical documentation is missing
A cancer diagnosis without records is a weak claim. Intake needs to prompt claimants to locate oncology notes, pathology reports, and surgery records before they forget or lose access.
Teams buried in unqualified leads
Heat straighteners, keratin treatments, and no-diagnosis claimants all look the same at the top of the funnel. Without automated screening, paralegals spend hours on leads that don't qualify.
Everything you need for hair relaxer MDL intake
From first contact to attorney-ready case packet — automated.
Automated Product Usage Screening
Capture brand, frequency of use, years of use, and last use date — 24/7, without a phone call. The intake works while your ad campaigns run.
Waypoint AI Scoring
Every submission is scored against your criteria: diagnosis type, duration of use, brands used, treatment history, and documentation completeness — producing a litigability score automatically.
Brand-Specific Evidence Capture
Dynamic forms branch by defendant — L'Oreal, Revlon, Strength of Nature, Dabur — targeting product-specific exposure data and purchase timelines relevant to each defendant.
Medical Record Collection
Prompt claimants to locate and upload diagnosis records, oncology notes, surgery reports, and treatment history upfront — before files go stale or records become harder to obtain.
Referral Partner Portal
Accept leads from co-counsel, advertising partners, and lead gen networks. Track source attribution, case status, and referral fees automatically.
E-Sign in the Intake Flow
Qualified claimants sign their retainer without leaving intake. No callbacks. No dropped leads. HIPAA authorization captured at the same time for medical record retrieval.
Named defendant brands
Intake forms branch by defendant. Additional brands added as MDL expands.
Qualifying diagnoses
Automatic disqualifiers: heat straighteners only, keratin treatments, no cancer or fibroid diagnosis. Case Compass screens these out before a paralegal touches the file.
Every dimension of a hair relaxer claim — captured and scored
Maps directly into your Waypoint scoring criteria and intake form logic.
From first contact to attorney-ready case packet
Capture
The intake form and call center script collect product usage history — brand, frequency, years of use — and guides claimants through identifying the defendant based on the products they used.
Qualify
Chemical hair relaxer vs. heat tools, cancer or fibroids diagnosis vs. no diagnosis — automatic branching eliminates unqualified leads before anyone reviews them manually.
Score
Waypoint evaluates exposure duration, diagnosis type, medical documentation uploaded, and treatment history — producing a litigability score with a clear evidence gap report.
Deliver
Push clean case packets to your CRM. Route high-score leads to call center agents, live transfer, or attorney review. Automated follow-up handles pending medical records.
Ready to run hair relaxer MDL intake at scale?
We'll configure your intake flow and Waypoint scoring criteria for MDL 3060 — in days, not weeks.