Editorial policy

Independence, sourcing, disclosure: the editorial standards that govern this site.

Personal-injury content is a YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) topic. Errors have real consequences for real people. The standards below are what we hold ourselves to.

Last reviewed 2026-05-16

Editorial independence

CaseWorthNow has no equity owner, advertiser, or business partner with input rights into editorial decisions. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored content, or pay-for-coverage arrangements with law firms, insurance companies, or claims-buyer aggregators.

Display advertising appears in clearly labeled slots and is not adjusted based on advertiser identity. Ad networks (Google AdSense, Ezoic, or others used) operate on a purely programmatic basis. Editorial content is never modified to favor an advertiser.

Sourcing standards

Every factual claim on the site falls into one of three sourcing tiers:

  1. Tier 1: Primary law. Statutes, court decisions, regulatory filings. Cited directly to the controlling code section or case caption.
  2. Tier 2: Secondary authority. Cornell Legal Information Institute, ABA model rules, state bar publications. Used to corroborate Tier 1 and to provide cross-reference.
  3. Tier 3: Practice literature. AAJ publications, state trial-lawyer association practice manuals, peer-reviewed law-review articles. Used to provide contextual explanation of how a rule operates in practice.

We do not cite to law-firm marketing pages, lawyer-rating sites, claims-buyer marketing content, or other commercial publications as authority for factual claims. We do not cite to general-purpose AI assistants (ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) as sources.

AI disclosure

AI-assisted content on this site is clearly labeled with the model used (Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, etc.) and includes a reasoning trace showing how the model arrived at the output. Readers can verify the model\'s reasoning against the cited primary sources.

AI is used for:

  • Drafting prose where the analytical reasoning is straightforward and primary sources are available for verification.
  • Reading verified primary sources and producing structured fact extractions.
  • Generating personalized output in tools where the user\'s specific inputs drive the result.

AI is not used for:

  • Fabricating citations to cases or statutes that have not been verified by the primary-source pipeline.
  • Generating legal advice or case-specific recommendations.
  • Inventing settlement figures, verdict amounts, or "average" recoveries that cannot be traced to a real source.

Author identification and expertise

The site is built and maintained by an independent publisher. Editorial decisions and tool design are reviewed by domain consultants with experience in U.S. personal-injury litigation. Where the team\'s expertise is insufficient on a state-specific procedural point, we cite to and link the controlling authority rather than paraphrase.

For named tools (Case Value AI, Demand Letter Generator, etc.), the author of the underlying methodology and the consulting reviewers are identified on the Methodology page. We do not anonymize authorship to disguise the limits of our expertise.

Corrections

We maintain a public corrections log on the Corrections page. Substantive factual errors are corrected within 24 hours of verification, and the correction is logged with the original error, the correct content, and the date of correction.

We do not silently edit content after publication to disguise prior errors. Material changes are timestamped and the prior version is archivable through standard web-archiving services.

Conflicts of interest

The site does not refer cases to specific attorneys and does not accept referral fees. The Find an Attorney page links to state bar referral services, which are statutorily-regulated non-profit entities, not commercial directories.

If we ever begin accepting referral fees, we will disclose this prominently on every page that includes attorney referrals and on the Editorial Policy page. We have no plans to do so.

What we will not publish

The site will not publish:

  • Specific "average settlement" figures without underlying case-data citations.
  • Promises or implications about outcomes in specific cases.
  • Comparative claims about specific attorneys or law firms.
  • Statements that could reasonably be interpreted as legal advice.
  • "Click here to be matched with a lawyer in your area" interstitials.

Updates to this policy

This editorial policy is reviewed annually and updated when our practices change. Material changes to the policy are timestamped at the top of this page.