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CompHub may be unavailable 8 - 10 pm and during system maintenance.
Need Help? comphubsupport@wcc.state.md.us.  Available CompHub instructional videos, QuickStart guides and more can be found at these links

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Attention Employers & Insurers: Please see Bulletin 23-1101 for updates to CompHub.
Attention Attorneys/Proxies: When you upload the Settlement as a packet, please be sure to put your documents in the proper order to ensure proper and timely processing 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.

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.


Please note that the Commission has stopped sending out tasks to CH users when requests for continuance, rehearing or change of venue are filed. You will still be able to respond to any of these requests by starting a new process. Select ‘Start New Action’, ‘Hearings’, and then the clipboard icon for ‘All’. Response options are ‘Response to Rehearing Request’, ‘Response to Continuance Request’, and ‘Response to Change of Venue’

The option to file a Claimant’s Consent to Pay Fees and Costs and Claimant’s Affidavit has been removed from the Upload Exhibit process. Please use the stand alone processes, You can locate the stand alone processes by going to Start New Action, then selecting Claims, then selecting Claimant’s Consent to Pay Fees and Costs or Claimant’s Affidavit. This process will route directly to a Commissioner’s office relieving you of the necessity to contact the assistant to inform them of the filings.

 Prior to adding a new employer to the database, please check to ensure the employer does not already exist. If the employer exists, please use that employer. If the employer does not exist, please proceed to add the employer. Creating a duplicate employer may delay the processing and verification of the claim.

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.
11/16/23: Effective immediately, the process to file vocational rehabilitation plans has been 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.

Effective Wednesday, 11/01/23, the Commission stopped the issuance of duplicate paper copies to all attorneys, insurers and any other entity who has signed up to receive E notice.    Beginning November 1, 2023 we send only electronic notices to these entities.
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 and videos for detailed instructions.

At the deployment of CompHub, the Commission decided to send both electronic and paper notices to all the parties. Effective 11/01/23, the Commission will send these entities only the electronic notices.

Attention Practitioners, Paralegals, Proxies, Insurers: Effective Thursday, October 19, 2023, all Death & Funeral Benefits claims must be filed electronically via CompHub. Forms received on/after this date will be returned. We thank you in advance for complying.
 Effective Monday, October 16, 2023, the Commission no longer accepts paper/hardcopy FROI’s (First Reports of Injury)
 Effective Monday, October 9, 2023, the Commission will no longer accept Settlements in paper form
 If you wish to see before whom a claim is set for hearing, please use the ‘Public Claim Data Inquiry’ on the CompHub landing page. When you enter the claim number and another data element, you should then select ‘hearing results’. This search will show the hearing date, Commissioner and location of the hearing.
Please Note: In the legacy system if 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.
09/14/23: We are receiving in paper form: C-40, Enter/Withdraw Appearance, Issues, Statement of Wage, Termination of Medical and TT Benefits   Effective Monday, September 18, 2023, we will no longer accept these forms in paper, they must be filed in CompHub.  Any forms received on this date and after, will be returned.  Thank you in advance.

 Valid Powers of Attorney: To be valid, a power of attorney filed with the Commission through CompHub MUST comply with Estates & Trusts Art. § 17-110:  If the POA does not comply with Estates & Trusts Art. § 17-110, the claim will be REJECTED.   See August 2023 Notices.
 Attention CompHub Users - if you do not see claim documents in the claim file in CompHub, the documents may have not yet been migrated. Please use the ‘Claim Document Request’ feature on the CompHub landing page .  If you are having difficulty filing  a Request for Modification or similar, please check Claim Documents to see if there are documents listed. If there are none they need to be migrated before you will be able to file the Request.



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