Lawsuits & Bankruptcies
Find the legal risk credit checks miss
Search lawsuits, bankruptcies, and judgments filed against businesses and their key people before they become liabilities.
Trusted by 2,200+ industry-leading financial institutions
Screening the business alone isn’t enough. Lawsuits and bankruptcies tied to owners can slip through, causing fraud losses and bad debt.
Search beyond the business
Uncover red flags from every aspect of the business, anywhere in the country thanks to Baselayer’s unmatched coverage across more than 2,500 courts.
Say goodbye to false positives
Flag real matches, not background noise. Baselayer disambiguates names with verified business and individual attributes.
Spot financial distress before it hits your books
Flag business and personal bankruptcies, judgments, and collection actions.
Get notified when legal risk appears
Surface new and ongoing litigations for onboarding and monitoring.
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Embed legal checks in your flow
Deliver litigation signals automatically into your existing onboarding or underwriting stack. No extra queues needed.
Know what the case is and why it matters
Get structured details like case type, jurisdiction, status, and named parties so you can assess risk without needing a legal team.
Turn signals into smarter decisions
Product Managers
Credit & Underwriting Teams
Risk & Fraud Teams
Compliance Teams
Built for confident approvals
Baselayer connects fragmented data and applies AI to help you act early, and with more confidence.
Tap into a cross-platform network to detect emerging fraud trends before they spread.
Bring public, proprietary, and partner sources together to strengthen every check with real-time insights.
Let Baselayer's AI agents put monotonous work on autopilot with unparalleled accuracy and scalability.
Verified fraud intelligence from across the market, shared by top financial institutions and risk teams.
Build a broader view of legal and operational risk
Baselayer makes it easy to factor in adjacent signals, so your team can move fast without missing critical red flags.
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Risk Rating
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Baselayer’s Lawsuits & Litigations product surfaces lawsuits, bankruptcies, and judgments tied to the business itself, as well as to its owners, officers, and applicants. You’ll catch legal risks during onboarding or underwriting that credit scores and basic KYB checks often miss.
You can detect civil and criminal cases including contract disputes, collections, defaults, fraud accusations, bankruptcies, probate cases, and judgments. All data is pulled from over 2,500+ state and county courts, as well as U.S. federal court data through PACER, giving you unmatched visibility into legal risk.
Integrate lawsuit and bankruptcy data directly into your onboarding and risk workflows with real-time alerts and daily case updates. You can block high-risk applicants faster without manually checking multiple court systems.
Baselayer provides structured summaries of each case with the context you need to assess risk quickly. You can access deeper details like court division, judge, docket number, and full case records whenever you need them to support your decision-making process.
