MikeA legal AI workspace for workers' compensation firms
Workers' compensation firms use Mike to read medical reports, wage statements and carrier correspondence, summarize impairment ratings, and draft hearing memos and settlement summaries. Every statement cites the page it came from, so an attorney can confirm it against the claim file.
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Attorney: Compare Mr. Delgado's treating physician report to the independent medical exam on work restrictions and draft the disputed issues section of the hearing memo.
Mike: The treating physician restricts Mr. Delgado to lifting no more than 10 pounds and links the L4 injury to the warehouse fall [1]. The independent examiner sets the limit at 25 pounds and attributes part of the condition to a prior back problem [2]. The employer's first report describes the fall but no earlier back claim [3]. I drafted the disputed issues section.
- [1] Treating physician report, p. 4
- [2] Independent medical exam, pp. 6 to 7
- [3] Employer first report of injury, p. 1
Mike created Delgado hearing memo.docx.
Example matter. Names and documents are fictional.
A compensation claim lives in paper that keeps arriving: first reports of injury, independent medical examinations, work status notes, benefit payment logs, denial letters. Mike reads each new document as it comes in, ties it to the claim, and keeps a running picture of where the injury, the treatment and the benefits stand.
Cuanto Labs installs Mike for your firm, connects it to the folders where claim files already live, and loads your own intake forms and hearing templates. Claimants' medical and wage records stay inside your firm's own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Medical report summaries
- Mike reads treating physician notes, independent medical examinations and functional capacity evaluations, and summarizes the diagnosis, work restrictions and any impairment rating, with each point linked to its page. Conflicts between reports are listed side by side.
- Average weekly wage worksheets
- From pay stubs, wage statements and employer records, Mike builds a table of earnings by period and drafts the wage worksheet in your format, so every figure traces to a document in the file.
- Benefit payment audits
- Mike compares the carrier's payment log against the benefit periods in the file and lists any week where a payment looks missing or different from what the records suggest, for the attorney to check.
- Hearing and mediation memos
- Mike drafts a hearing memo from the claim file, setting out the injury, treatment history, disputed issues and the documents supporting each position. The draft arrives as a Word document, with tracked changes when you ask for a revision.
- Denial letter analysis
- Upload a denial or a notice of controversion, and Mike lists the stated grounds, the facts and records the carrier relies on, and the records in your file that bear on each ground.
- Settlement summaries
- Mike pulls medical history, payments to date, future medical needs and wage loss into a settlement summary your attorney reviews before it goes to the client or the carrier.
How we set it up for your firm
- Claim files, connected
- We connect Mike to the drive or document system where your claim files live, so new carrier mail and medical reports can be asked about without re-uploading them.
- Your forms and templates
- We load the intake forms, hearing memos, settlement summaries and client letters your firm already uses, adjusted for the rules of your state's system.
- Medical review templates
- We build tabular review templates that pull the same fields from every medical report, such as provider, date, diagnosis, restrictions and rating.
- State forms and deadline list
- We list the forms and filing dates your state's system requires, so the saved workflow that reads new notices knows which dates to pull out for your staff.
- Wage worksheet layout
- We build the average weekly wage worksheet in the layout your board or carrier expects, with the earnings table it draws from, so each figure traces to a pay record.
Questions attorneys ask
Does Mike know the workers' compensation rules in my state?
Compensation systems differ a great deal from state to state, and Mike does not replace an attorney's knowledge of yours. It searches published case law, and we can connect the statutes, board decisions and other sources your firm uses. Templates are set up around your state's forms and deadlines, and attorneys review everything.
Can Mike track filing deadlines?
Mike can read a notice or order and tell you what dates it states, with a citation to the page. It is not a docketing system, and it does not replace your calendar. We can add a saved workflow that lists the deadlines found in a new document so your staff can enter them.
Can Mike read handwritten work status notes?
Mike reads scanned documents once they have been through text recognition, which we set up during installation. Typed forms read best. Handwritten notes are hit and miss, and Mike says when a page could not be read instead of guessing, so those pages can go to a person. Where a handwritten form matters, such as a work status slip, it helps to keep a typed copy or summary in the file beside it.
Can Mike compare an independent medical exam with the treating doctor's report?
Yes. Load both and Mike lists the diagnosis, work restrictions, causation opinion and any impairment rating from each report side by side, with the page for every entry. Disagreements are laid out so the attorney can see exactly where the examiner departs from the treating physician. Which opinion carries more weight is for the attorney and the judge to decide.
Can Mike spot gaps in treatment?
From the medical reports and bills in the file, Mike builds a dated list of visits and flags stretches with no treatment recorded, with the page for the visits on either side. Carriers sometimes point to such gaps, so seeing them early helps the attorney prepare an explanation with the claimant. Mike lists only the visits that appear in the documents you have loaded.
What if a claimant had two employers?
Tabular Review can pull earnings from every pay stub and wage statement into a table by employer and pay period, so concurrent employment shows up beside the main job. Each figure links to its source page. How the second job counts toward the average weekly wage under your state's rules is the attorney's call, and the worksheet is a draft until reviewed.
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