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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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11/16/23:
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.
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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Effective Monday, October 16, 2023, the Commission no longer
accepts paper/hardcopy FROI’s (First Reports of Injury)
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Effective Monday, October
9, 2023, the Commission will no longer accept Settlements in
paper form
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
