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Attention Attorneys and
Proxies: Please do not file a Medical Controversion until
the Order NISI has been issued by the Commission. The
Commission will not be processing a Controversion filed
prior to the issuance of the Order NISI.
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Effective
February 5, 2024 copies of Petitions for Judicial
Review, Circuit Court Orders and additional Appeal documents
are no longer accepted in paper. Submit these documents
via CompHub. These processes
are accessed from the Start New Action Menu > select: Hearings >
Appeal Request > Circuit Court Order Submission or
Additional Appeal Documents respectively to upload the
required documents.
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The VR-02 (Closure Report)
and VR-33 (Insurer’s Report of Rehab Progress) are live in
CompHub, under the “Voc Rehab” tab. They are no longer to be
submitted using the web forms previously on the WCC website.
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When uploading a Settlement as a packet, be
sure the documents are in the proper order as follows: Settlement worksheet *
Settlement agreement * Cl. Affidavit * Cl. Consent to pay fees
and costs * Receipts for expenses * Doctor bills with CPT codes
* Other documents.
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The Employer or the Carrier
should use the
EMPLOYER SUBSCRIBER DESIGNATION form to serve as written
authorization and request to the Commission for the individual
to be assigned for the Employer in CompHub. The Employer or the
Carrier understands and agrees that this assignment will enable
the Employer Subscriber to establish a generic email address to
which all mail from the Commission (e-notices, awards, etc.)
will be directed and will permit the Employer Subscriber to
assign Employer Delegates, enabling access to and for filing
ability in all the employer’s Maryland claims.
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Claimant’s Consent to Pay
Fees and Costs and Claimant’s Affidavit
have been removed from the Upload
Exhibit process. Please use the standalone processes located at
Start New Action > Claims>
Claimant’s Consent to Pay Fees and Costs or Claimant’s
Affidavit. This process will route directly to a Commissioner’s
office eliminating the necessity to contact the assistant
to inform them of the filings.
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Before adding a new employer to
the database, please check to ensure the employer does not
already exist. If the employer exists, please use the
existing employer. Creating a duplicate employer may delay
the processing and verification of the claim. Please do NOT
ask the Commission to create a new employer for a
governmental entity.
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ATTENTION ATTORNEYS: Requests to Commissioners for accommodations to go first or
last on a docket should only include the ability to go first on
the Abingdon docket and last on the City docket or first on the
Beltsville docket and last on the City docket. Other
accommodations will be denied. Thank you for your understanding.
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11/2023 -The
process to file vocational rehabilitation plans is updated
in CompHub. To prepare and submit a plan, please select “Start
New Action’ and then select ‘Voc Rehab.’ Next Select, ‘Voc Rehab
Plan.’ Once the plan has been completed in the template, there
will be an opportunity to generate the plan, print it, get
signatures and then upload the plan into CompHub. After the
signed documents are uploaded, the vocational practitioner
should submit the plan to the Commission via CompHub. Please
follow the instructions contained in the template. The VR-06 -
Selection of Services & Practitioner should still be emailed to
hbrooke@wcc.state.md.us and prior to submitting the
Vocational rehabilitation plan. The Commission has published a
video as well as a QuickStart guide in the Knowledge Center on
the CompHub landing page. Any questions, please contact Harrison
Brooke.
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A stand-alone CompHub process is
available to file the Claimant’s Consent to Pay Fees
& Costs and Claimant’s Affidavit. You may access them from the
“Start New Action” menu, select “Claims,” then “Claimant’s
Consent to Pay Fees and Costs” or “Affidavit.” Use the Affidavit
process when you have a need to file the Affidavit outside the
initial submission of a Settlement (as is required to be a part
of the Settlement submission). Please use the Claimant’s Consent
to Pay Fees and Costs process both before or after the hearing
and after an Order has been issued. See our QuickStart guides
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Attention Practitioners,
Paralegals, Proxies, Insurers:
All Death & Funeral Benefits claims must be filed electronically
via CompHub. Forms received on/after
Thursday, October 19, 2023 will be returned.
We thank you in advance for complying.
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Please Note:
In the legacy system when a case was already set for hearing, it
was not Commission practice to add new issues into the system
because it would set a second hearing for those new issues. The
issues were filed in the claim file and the party would advise
the Commissioner that the new issues were there. However,
because those issues were never entered into the database,
CompHub doesn’t recognize that the issues exist even though they
are visible in Claim documents. This problem will resolve when
new issues are filed in CompHub and the case is already set.
In the meantime, please file a Consent Request for Document
Correction asking the Commission to withdraw the issues filed on
the date the issues were originally filed and list the specific
issues to be withdrawn. The Commission will withdraw the issues.
If you prefer to have a document on file, you may still file the
Consent Request for Document Correction and ask the Commission
to put the issues in line so that a Withdraw Issues may be
filed.
Attorney fee regulations effective April 3, 2023 apply ONLY to
claims filed ON or AFTER April 3, 2023. Claims filed BEFORE
April 3, 2023 continue to be governed by the former attorney fee
regulations
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