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Workers Compensation Solutions: Price & Feature Comparison
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following is a feature/price matrix based on workcompcentral's independent
research.*
Compare our features and our pricing, and it becomes
clear that using WorkCompCentral as your primary workers' compensation legal
tool in conjunction with our competition on an as needed basis will provide
you with your best cost/benefit ratio!
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Cases
Codes
Forms
Regulations
Practice
Guide
News
CLE
Support
Calculators
EDEX
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Features
Benefits
Disadvantages
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Workcompcentral.com ®
$25.83/mo - 1 yr contract individual license
Premium license provides access to the following
information and services:
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Westlaw ®
$120/mo - 1 yr contract for solo practioner, introductory rate
California Workers' Compensation Library provides access
to the following information:
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Lexis-Nexis ®
$140/mo - 1 yr contract for solo practioner, introductory rate
California Flat-Rate Library contains the following
libraries:
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Global Search -
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Searches entire database—everything included in
your plan
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Sorts results into convenient categories: cases,
forms, codes, regulations, articles, news, forums
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Search -
· Searches
entire database—results found outside your plan cost extra
· Sorts
results into categories: cases, forms
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Search -
· Searches
entire database—results found outside your plan cost extra
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Cases -
includes all published opinions as well as numerous news article references
to unpublished opinions:
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En Banc
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Significant panel decisions
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CA Appellate Court
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CA Supreme Court
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WCAB
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Administrative Director decisions
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Official and CCC citations
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Case notes and updates done by W/C legal
professionals
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Save research for future easy reference
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Cases - includes published and unpublished decisions:
· WCAB
· En Banc
· Significant
panel decisions
· Appellate
Court - WCAB and others
· Administrative
decisions
· Writs
granted summaries
· Writs
denied summaries & head notes
· Administrative
Director decisions
· Case
notes and updates done by legal professionals
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Cases - includes published and unpublished decisions:
· CA
Supreme Court
· CA Court
of Appeals
· US
Supreme Court
· Administrative
Cases
· Attorney
General Cases
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Codes - includes all relevant codes:
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Labor
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Evidence
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Unemployment
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Insurance
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Codes - includes select codes relevant to work comp
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Codes - all relevant California codes
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Forms - contains all 165 state
approved forms in PDF format.·
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Available to complete online or down load to your hard
drive
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Savable in PDF format
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Option to populate repetitive data throughout rest
of form
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Full text searchable (find obscure forms using
Global Search)
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Forms - available at no extra cost
· Available
online but only down loadable to your hard drive
· Smart
forms will populate repetitive data throughout rest of form
· Savable
in PDF format
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Forms - available for an extra $20/month
· Requires
specific software to download forms from Internet to your hard drive.·
· Smart
forms will populate repetitive data throughout rest of form
· Savable
in PDF format
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Regulations - all Title 8 and other relevant
regulations as well
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Regulations - Selected sections from Title 8
as well as Title 22
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Regulations - contains Barclays'
California Code of Regulations
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California Work Comp Flowchart ™
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Highly acclaimed step by step practice and
procedure guide
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105 screens clearly and concisely delineating the
step-by-step work comp process
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Annotated to all relevant codes, cases,
regulations, forms and even terms of art
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Linked to EDEX
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Practice Guide - California Civil Practice
· Includes
all forms
· Contains
helpful practice tips and suggestions on how to navigate tricky issues
· Procedural
checklists
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Matthew Bender Practice Guide -
Contains access to the Bender Guides for Pretrial Civil Procedure and Civil
Discovery.· These guides are not
specific to work comp, but do contain everything a work comp practitioner
would run into and more
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Daily Newsletter -
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The industry's only daily, comprehensive
publication devoted entirely to work comp covering everything from recent
cases and legislation to carrier information and who's coming and going
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Contains a case law and statute update
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Contains links to recent Professional Articles
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California Workers' Compensation Advisor
· Work
comp news from both attorneys' and physicians' perspectives (actually
published by Providence Publications LLC)
California Workers' Compensation Executive -
· Current
news about work comp issues and in-depth articles regarding carrier solvency
and politics (actually published by Providence Publications LLC)
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News Subscriptions - contains full online access to
35 of the top California news publications.·
These publications are not specifically broken into workcomp news
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Continuing Legal Education -
(coming soon!)
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Online specialized CLE program available 24/7 at a
reasonable rate that contains PD Rating credit
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Sponsors and hosts periodic live panel discussions
that count towards CLE credit
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Continuing Legal Education -
· Online
CLE program available 24/7
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Continuing Legal Education -
· Online
CLE programs available 24/7
· NOT specific
to work comp
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Technical Support -
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Via email 24/7, web link, phone
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No fee
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Technical Support -
· Via
phone 24/7
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Technical Support -
· Via
phone 24/7
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Reporters -
· California
Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Reporter
· California
Jurisprudence 3D
· Cal-OSHA
Reporter
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Reporters -
· Cal-OSHA
Reporter
· Workers'
Compensation Executive
· CA Rules
of Evidence w/ Objections
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Jury Instructions - criminal, civil,
council, and Matthew Bender·
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Public Records Materials -
Secretary of State, State and Federal Tax and Judgment Liens, Bankruptcy, UCC
Filings
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Law Reviews & Journals -
Contains access to most major law reviews and journals
across the US.
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Calculators - contains a full suite of
easy-to-use calculators.· Continually
updated to reflect the current status of the law, includes:
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PD Ratings
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Commutations
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Life Pensions
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Important Dates
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EDEX - provides access to the WCAB
database online and at a fraction of the cost of typical providers, includes:
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Prior cases filed and their resolution
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Party names and contact information
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Vendors can file liens online
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Hearing and event notices
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Professional Directory - not
only can you list your own practice information for FREE but you can also
look up physicians or any other vendor needed specific to a location
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Professional Forums -
specific to the various work comp industries, with thousands of regular
members.·
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SSN Validation - search
a particular social security number for current and prior addresses
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Save to My Documents - save your research to folders you create in your account so you can retrieve it later!
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Workcompcentral.com ®
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Westlaw ®
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Lexis-Nexis ®
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EDEX - for as little as $0.75 (seventy-five cents - certain restrictions apply for this price) an inquiry, have access online to WCAB
database, including all parties and contact info filed to a particular case,
prior cases filed and their dispositions, vendors can file liens online,
hearing and settlement notices all in one convenient form so you don't have
to search all over the database.
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Keycite ® - additional $60/month.· Searches case or statute history to assess
whether something is still considered good law.
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Enhanced library - additional $80/month on top of
the typical library charges ($220/month total). Provides access to the same
library plus all 9th Cir. and Supreme Court cases.
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Advertising - for various additional costs
a practitioner or firm can highlight their services to a captive and
interested target market.· Including:
hosting expert forums, directory listings, banner ads, subscription
sponsorships, etc.·
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Judicial Forms (JC Forms) -
additional one time fee of $415.·
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Matthew Bender California Workers' Compensation -
additional $90/month.· Provides access
to: Hanna practice guide, Occupational injuries and illnesses, Herlick's
CA Workers' Compensation Handbook, Herlick's CA Workers' Compensation
Law, Medline - database of medical journals
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Modern Workers' Compensation binders - additional
one time fee of $408.· These practice
binders provide in depth coverage of each step of the work comp process but
are not California specific.·
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Workcompcentral.com ®
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Westlaw ®
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Lexis-Nexis ®
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Cost - a minimum of
$120/month
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Cost - a minimum of
$140/month
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Case law database not as
comprehensive
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Visual layout of the
website is not as easy as WCC but more navigable than Lexis
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No Shepardizing®
availability
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California Civil
Practice guide is updated only
once a year - forms, rules, cases etc online may not be most up-to-date
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Updates, while regular,
are not up as quick as WCC.· Can take
upwards of several days to two weeks to upload new case or legislative
material
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Keycite ® is an additional
charge of $60/month
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Forms are an additional
charge of $20/month
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No EDEX and also no public
records
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Has public record access
but not specifically tailored like EDEX inquiry
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Anything outside your plan
will cost you extra, and its not cheap
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Anything outside your plan
will cost you extra, and its not cheap
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Not specifically set
up for work comp access so there's often much a practitioner won't need
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