One October Fund

BrownGreer administered the $800 million One October Fund to compensate victims of the mass shooting at the Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017.

The program included 4,068 claimants, from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, represented by 60 law firms. We designed an equitable points system using the four injury categories of death, gunshot, crowd trampling, and PTSD and other psychological harm, with differing levels of injury severity and twelve criteria that compare the magnitude of personal and economic losses across claimants, and then wrote the governing protocol to define clearly the proof requirements and administrative process, working with the two retired state court judges who mediated the settlement.

Claimants opted in and then submitted a claim package with supporting documentation on the online system we created for the program. We evaluated each claim and provided an outcome based on the allocation criteria. We also coordinate with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to handle the required MMSEA query and reporting functions.