ADJ10825156Panel
For applicant
88Match
01 California workers’ compensation research
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SimilarCase ranks California WCAB decisions by legal-factor match and keeps the supporting source passage visible.
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5,300Decisions indexed
47,200Factor passages
25Issue types
23District offices covered
The corpus grows continuously — new decisions, factors, and regions are indexed as the project develops.
03Open without an accountThe corpus itself
5,374Every released decision →Filter by issue, outcome, kind, year or district office — several at once. Each row opens the decision, taken apart by what it turned on.3,878The names on a panel letter →Paste the three names. See where each already appears in a released decision, with the passage — and who they are on the state's register.2021–2026What happened on reconsideration →Which disputes were fought at the Board, how they came out, what panels did with the medical opinions. Every number opens the decisions behind it.123Labor Code, section by section →The statute text the state publishes, and underneath it the passages where a panel actually named that section.The gapsWhat is in here, and what is not →No appellate authority, no trial-level decisions, no citator. Worth reading before you rely on any of it.Forms · notices · rates · officesEverything else →The paperwork of a California claim: what each letter is, what rule requires it, and what clock it starts.
04How it worksIntake to receipts
PDF · DOCX · voice · photo — the extractor reads them and lights up the legal factors the moment they land.
●Lumbar spine●QME obtained●Apportionment
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QME discuss ADL?YesNo
Ranked decisions, a factor-by-factor breakdown, and source passages with page references when the corpus provides them.
“…the QME failed to address activities of daily living…”
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06Not a similarity score — its anatomyEvery claim is inspectable
Example resultPanel decisionFor applicantMatch 88
✓Cumulative trauma: lumbar spine plus shoulder
✓Apportionment to degeneration disputed at trial
✗Their QME discussed ADL — yours does not
“The QME’s report does not constitute substantial medical evidence… he failed to explain how the injury affects the applicant’s activities of daily living.”
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07 California WCAB · 2021—2026 · 5300+ decisions indexed · growing
The issue types below come from indexed panel and en banc decisions — the counts are live corpus numbers, and they keep growing: new decisions and regions are added as the project develops.
Injury AOE/COE42
Reconsideration procedure28
Medical treatment / UR29
Permanent disability rating23
QME/AME process17
Substantial evidence16
Liens13
Apportionment11
Psychiatric injury17
Temporary disability10
Earnings9
Jurisdiction / venue10
…and more+13
Source provenance is retained; page references appear when extraction provides them.
About SimilarCase
What is SimilarCase?
A California WCAB research workbench. You describe a workers’ compensation dispute; it finds released panel decisions that turned on the same kinds of facts, with the source passage and the official PDF.
Can I search without creating an account?
Yes. Public decision search is /explore. An account is for saved matters, PDF intake, and the signed-in comparison desk — not for reading the reference pages.
Is SimilarCase a law firm or legal advice?
Neither. It is research assistance over public Board decisions. Licensed counsel still has to read the PDF, check later authority, and decide what to file.