Alberta startup launches AI ‘lawyer’ for personal injury claims
Global News
Inspired by his 2019 crash, Painworth co-founder Mike Zouhri says the company aims to make injury claims more affordable and accessible.
An Alberta-based legal technology company says it is using artificial intelligence to help personal injury claimants navigate the court system.
Painworth, founded in 2020, recently began offering personalized AI-assisted representation for accident victims seeking injury settlements.
Mike Zouhri, one of three founders, said the company’s mission is to improve access to justice for people who may struggle to afford or reach traditional legal services.
“There’s a myriad of reasons why people have difficulty getting access to justice,” he told Global News in an interview, pointing to rural and remote communities, mobility issues, literacy barriers and what he called “bad case economics,” where a claim may be worth money but not enough to attract a lawyer.
The company previously provided AI-powered back-end tools to law firms, including software that can process thousands of pages of medical records and generate chronologies and draft documents.
Its newer offering adds what the company calls DAVID, an AI system that interacts directly with clients seeking representation. DAVID is available 24-7 and can chat in almost every language.
“In Alberta, the Law Society has given us permission to operate as a law firm, which means that we can now represent people in Alberta, even though we’re non-lawyers,” Zouhri said.
He said every represented file will be overseen by a human lawyer, as required by the regulator.
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