About TortAdvisor
TortAdvisor helps consumers understand complex product-liability, mass-tort, and personal-injury matters through clear legal guides, current case updates, settlement resources, and interactive calculators.
Who We Are
TortAdvisor is a legal-information and consumer education platform headquartered in Stuart, Florida. For the past six years, our team has focused on helping everyday people understand their options after a product-related injury, motor vehicle accident, toxic exposure, or other personal injury.
We monitor active litigation, court filings, regulatory announcements, settlement developments, and emerging claim criteria. Our goal is to turn complicated legal and medical information into useful, professionally presented resources that readers can understand without needing a law degree.
TortAdvisor is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Our role is to help readers become better informed, identify important questions, and understand when professional legal or medical guidance may be appropriate.
What We Provide
Active Lawsuit Guides
Clear explanations of current mass-tort, product-liability, toxic-exposure, and personal-injury matters.
Settlement Calculators
Educational tools that organize injury severity, evidence, treatment, damages, and other claim-value factors.
Settlement Amount Guides
Carefully labeled estimates and confirmed settlement information presented without promising a result.
Legal Insights
Timely articles explaining court activity, regulatory developments, evidence requirements, and consumer issues.
Our Editorial Process
Every TortAdvisor resource begins with research. Our editorial and development teams review relevant court records, government publications, regulatory materials, settlement documents, and other authoritative sources before preparing an article or calculator.
Source Review
We begin with primary sources whenever possible, including court records, government agencies, multidistrict litigation dockets, statutes, and official program guidance.
Plain-Language Drafting
Complex legal and medical information is translated into direct, readable explanations without unnecessary jargon.
Accuracy and Formatting Review
Content is reviewed for factual consistency, source support, readability, mobile presentation, and clear distinctions between confirmed facts and estimates.
Ongoing Updates
Pages are revised as cases progress, eligibility standards change, new rulings are entered, or more reliable information becomes available.
Meet Mason Arnao, Publisher and Editor
Mason Arnao is the publisher and editor of TortAdvisor. He has spent more than 15 years analyzing personal injury and mass tort litigation and writing reports on it, working directly with some of the largest law firms in the mass tort space. He is also the founder and chief executive of Waypoint Software, LLC, which he started 15 years ago.
That work is what this site is built on, and it is built the same way those reports were. Every guide here starts with the record itself — the orders and opinions on the underlying docket, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s monthly statistics reports, notices published by court-appointed settlement administrators, FDA and other agency material, and company filings. What those documents say is what the page says, written so that someone who is not a lawyer can act on it.
Fifteen years of reading these cases closely is mostly an education in what does not hold up. Settlement “averages” that no court document supports. Pending case counts repeated as though they were payouts. Projected claim values for litigation that has never settled a single case. TortAdvisor publishes none of those, and that is a decision made from experience rather than caution: a figure that cannot be traced to a document is not information, and on a page someone may rely on while deciding what to do about their own injury, it is worse than silence.
Mason Arnao is the publisher and editor of TortAdvisor and is accountable for everything published here, including every figure and every citation. He is not an attorney, does not practice law, and nothing on this site is legal advice or a prediction of what a particular claim is worth. Every dollar figure on TortAdvisor is taken from a court record, an official settlement administrator or a company filing, and is linked to that document so that any reader can check it against the source. Questions about a source, and corrections, can be sent using the contact details below.
Credentials, scope and limits
- Role
- Publisher and editor of TortAdvisor, accountable for every page, every figure and every citation on the site.
- Experience
- More than 15 years analyzing personal injury and mass tort litigation and writing reports on it.
- Also
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Waypoint Software, LLC, for 15 years.
- Who that work was for
- Law firms practising in the mass tort space, including some of the largest, working with them directly.
- Primary sources used
- MDL dockets and court orders; the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s monthly pending-actions reports; notices published by court-appointed settlement administrators; FDA and other federal agency records; and company filings.
- Litigation covered here
- AFFF and PFAS (MDL 2873), talc (MDL 2738), hernia mesh (MDL 2846), hair relaxer (MDL 3060), Depo-Provera (MDL 3140), paraquat (MDL 3004), Suboxone (MDL 3092), GLP-1 medicines (MDL 3094), NEC preterm formula (MDL 3026), Bair Hugger (MDL 2666), acetaminophen (MDL 3043), social media (MDL 3047), Uber (MDL 3084) and Roblox (MDL 3166), together with asbestos, abuse and motor-vehicle claims litigated outside the MDL system.
- Not claimed
- Mason Arnao is not an attorney, is not licensed to practise law in any state, and gives neither legal nor medical advice. Nothing published on TortAdvisor predicts what an individual claim is worth.
- Contact
- mason@tortadvisor.com · 888-959-4269 ext. 100 · Stuart, Florida
Who Writes This Site
Every page on TortAdvisor is written and maintained by Mason Arnao, who publishes and edits the site. There is no anonymous byline here and no editorial collective: one named person reads the dockets, the agency records and the settlement notices, writes the guides and the timelines, and answers for what they say. Where an outside specialist reviews a page, that person is named on the page itself.
Our editorial objective is consistent across every page: provide clear, current, well-organized information that helps readers better understand a legal issue and make more informed decisions about their next steps.
- Confirmed facts are separated from allegations, and an allegation is labeled as one.
- Every dollar figure published on this site is an amount a court, a settlement administrator or a company filing has actually reported, and it links to that document. TortAdvisor does not publish projected settlement ranges, estimated case values or average payouts, because no one can know what an individual claim is worth.
- Time-sensitive legal and regulatory information is updated when reliable new information becomes available.
- Primary sources are linked so that a reader can open the underlying document and check it without taking our word for anything.
- Medical and legal disclaimers are included where appropriate.
Our Standards and Commitments
Accuracy Before Speed
We aim to publish quickly when important developments occur, but not at the expense of clear sourcing, context, and responsible wording.
Clarity for Consumers
Our writing is designed for people researching an injury or legal issue for the first time—not only attorneys or industry professionals.
No Guaranteed Results
Lawsuits, settlements, eligibility, and compensation depend on individual facts. We do not promise case acceptance or financial recovery.
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Use educational tools to organize claim-value factors and supporting evidence.
Review confirmed settlements, projected ranges, and factors that may affect compensation.
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