The Template Behind the Ban: Tracing HB 105 to Its Source A model act adopted by state insurance-committee legislators in November 2024 already named commercial litigation financiers as a target — before Ohio, Georgia, or Arizona wrote a single section. The litigation-funding industry’s own trade group has a different account of what these bills are […]
The Ban That Wasn’t: Ohio’s New Litigation-Funding Law Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed HB 105 in early July, and the coverage called it a foreign-funder ban, the second state to restrict litigation finance this summer after North Carolina’s outright prohibition. The bill text tells a stranger, more useful story: a real but narrow capital restriction […]
The Bank That Isn’t a Bank: Synapse and the FDIC Mirage An “FDIC-insured” balance in a fintech app doesn’t mean your money is safe — 100,000+ people learned that when Synapse, the middleware behind their apps, collapsed. Here’s how the trap works, why it’s bigger for the tens of millions chasing “high-yield” apps that aren’t […]
The Prohibition Model: North Carolina Bans Litigation Funding On June 22, 2026, North Carolina became the first US state to ban third-party litigation funding outright — not disclosure, not a cap, a flat prohibition. Here’s what the statute actually does, and what it means for the asset class. My angle here isn’t a lawyer’s — […]
The Patent Platform Turn: How Families Beat Single Cases How patent acquisition and licensing-first strategies are reshaping litigation finance (2025–2026) My interest here isn’t academic. The “old model” this post describes — one patent, one defendant, one big swing — is exactly how I bought patent cases as a retail investor on LexShares. I held […]
