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Workers’ compensation · complex & litigated

Your examiners argue the case.
They shouldn’t be assembling the requirement set.

On a contested claim the file is the defence.
What was considered, when, and on what evidence is discoverable — and the attack works on the gaps.

When a decision is challenged, you can show every provision that applied
and what the file evidenced against each one.

What your examiner opens

A Case Orientation Report instead of a raw claim file.

Every provision the claim engages — Labor Code, Title 8, the medical-legal and permanent disability requirements, and your own handling standards — identified for consideration, with the evidence on the file set against each one. It states the position on each requirement. It never reaches the determination.

One requirement, as it appears in the reportIllustrative
A notice of the right to a permanent disability evaluation was provided with or before the last payment of temporary disability.
Labor Code §4061 · statutory · version in force at date of injury
Not evidenced
The last temporary disability payment is on the payment register. No notice carrying the permanent disability rights advice appears on the file on or after that date. Named before the examiner decides — not found afterwards.
Requirements are prepared this way across compensability, indemnity, the medical-legal process, permanent disability and your own handling standards. Each one shows the provision, its source, and what on the file answers it — or that nothing does.

Two rails, clearly separated. The statutory requirements for the jurisdictions you write in, and your own handling standards alongside them. Your examiner can see at a glance which findings carry statutory exposure and which are your house rules.

It reports the file, not the examiner. It states what the record shows and what it does not — never what anyone did or decided.

It can be run at the beginning, and again whenever the claim is updated, to orientate the examiner. Requirements that did not exist at intake appear with their own deadlines, and evidence that was absent becomes present.


What it returns to the desk

A complete position on every provision, before the argument starts.

On a contested claim, the questions asked later are about what was considered and when. Outcomer establishes which provisions the claim engages and checks the file against each one, so the position on every requirement is recorded and dated before judgement rather than reconstructed after a challenge. Your examiner keeps the argument. Outcomer keeps the record.

An estimated 35% less time on each claim —
around 54% more capacity from the same team.

Estimated from a task-level decomposition of a contested indemnity claim at the point of a substantive determination, taking the conservative end of each range and including the time to run and read the report. Judgement minutes are unchanged — the saving is all preparation. These are our figures, not measurements on your claims; we go through the working against your own case timings in the demo.


Configured to your work

Configured to your rule book, and signed off before anything runs.

The statutory requirements for California, and your own handling standards, loaded alongside them under NDA. Your standards sit in your own configuration only. Nothing derived from them enters the shared regulatory corpus, and no other client’s configuration can draw on them.

The statutory matrix

Every provision engaged by a contested indemnity claim — the instrument that issued it, the version in force, and the point at which it applies. You review the whole set and sign it off.

Your internal matrix

Your escalation criteria, reserve authority, counsel referral triggers and roundtable standards, decomposed into requirements and set alongside the statute rather than merged with it. You confirm the rendering represents your manual.

Maintenance is agreed at the same time — how the matrix stays current, how you tell us when your own standards change, and how each update is recorded. Requirements are date-gated, so a claim from 2021 is examined against the rules as they stood in 2021.


What changes for the desk

Six things your claims leader sees.

  1. Fewer decisions overturned on something that was on the file.An entitlement or a notice requirement nobody identified was never in the position taken.
  2. A dated record of what was considered before judgement.Not reconstructed at disclosure, and not dependent on the examiner remembering.
  3. The same provisions applied whoever holds the file.Cold handovers between examiners stop changing the position taken.
  4. Fewer reserve surprises.An exposure nobody identified was never in the estimate.
  5. Fewer files back on a supervisor’s desk.The position on each requirement is complete and recorded the first time.
  6. When the auditor or counsel asks what was considered, it is already in the file.On every claim, not the sample they happen to pull.

How it runs

In your estate, against the requirements in force at the time.

An orientation layer that sits alongside your claims administration system. Outcomer does not replace or write to it. It reads the file and states the position; your examiners decide and update the record. No migration, no change to how claims are administered.

Outcomer deploys as a container inside your own environment. The software and the model run in your estate, and nothing about the claim leaves your tenancy.

Built to fit your claims workflow. Outcomer can operate as a standalone workflow during evaluation, or integrate with your existing claims-management environment so the Case Orientation Report becomes another part of the examiner’s existing workflow.

Schedule a 20-minute demo and see how it matches your desk’s work.

We will show you a Case Orientation Report produced against a published California decision, walk through how the matrix is configured and signed off, and go through what the record shows when a determination is challenged.