Every injury starts a filing clock. Your panel gets it.
A member’s injury opens a workers’ comp window in one or more states. The window closes whether or not the injury was ever written down anywhere official.
From one two-year pull across two hockey leagues: 1,172 documented injuries across 62 teams.
Workers’ comp is nobody’s department.
When a member gets hurt at work, a filing clock starts. Nobody is assigned to watch it.
No member should lose a claim because nobody was tracking it.
A season with the program.
One member’s injury, from the day it happened to the count the board sees.
A member leaves a game in the second period. It reaches the club’s own game notes that night, not the injury report.
Home state and game state are both open. Rule 01 names the panel attorney with coverage in the game state.
The first message goes out in the association’s name and words. The member replies YES, and consent is recorded.
The attorney opens the matter and files inside the first notice window, which would have closed on day 30.
Filed, pending and resolved, per attorney and per player. No chart, no note, no exam report.
Days are illustrative and the member is invented. Routing, the member message and the season report are next in the app.
Your rules pick the attorney.
Benefits differ a great deal from state to state, and an away-game injury can open a second state. The association writes its rules once.
Rules the association sets once
- 01Home state or game state. Which state the association prefers when both are open, and when the association wants the other one.
- 02Coverage. Which panel attorney takes which team, which state, which league.
- 03Capacity and overflow. What happens when an attorney is full, and how the next one is chosen.
- 04Conflicts. Firms that cannot take a team, a player, or an opponent.
- 05Former members. How the injuries of players no longer on a roster are handled, and for how long.
The rule picks the attorney and starts the clocks. Where the claim is actually filed stays with the attorney and the player.
- Injury
- Knee, away game
- Recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Team
- Based in State A
Sample. States, attorneys, and dates are invented. In the briefing we run your rules against your last two seasons.
The player hears from you first.
An attorney’s first call should not be a cold one. The first message goes out as the association, and the attorney gets a player who already said yes.
Sample message. The wording is the association’s to set, and its counsel approves it before anything goes out. Invented member and attorney.
Your own channel, in language your counsel approved. Nothing goes out in an attorney’s name.
Contact details attach to the routed injury only after the player agrees.
Who was contacted, when, and what they said. When a member asks, the association can answer.
See the panel working.
Filing counts per attorney and status per player, without the association handling a single case. When the board asks, there is a count to show.
| Attorney | Injuries received | Contacts made | Claims filed | Deadlines met | Median days to file | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel attorney 1State A | Injuries received41 | Contacts made39 | Claims filed31 | Deadlines met31 of 31 | Median days to file9 | |
| Panel attorney 2State A | Injuries received36 | Contacts made30 | Claims filed22 | Deadlines met21 of 22 | Median days to file14 | |
| Panel attorney 3State B | Injuries received28 | Contacts made27 | Claims filed25 | Deadlines met25 of 25 | Median days to file7 | |
| Panel attorney 4State C | Injuries received19 | Contacts made11 | Claims filed6 | Deadlines met5 of 6 | Median days to file23 | Review |
Counts, never records.
Medical records stay with the attorney and the physician, under the BAA. The association sees counts and status. It never sees a chart, a note, or an exam report, and it is never in the middle of the case.
- Which injuries were routed, to whom, under which rule.
- Contacts made and consents recorded, with dates.
- Claims filed, deadlines met, days to file, per attorney.
- Filed, pending, and resolved, per player.
- Season counts for the board and the membership.
- A medical record, a chart, or an exam report.
- An attorney’s notes, strategy, or work product.
- Privileged communication between the player and counsel.
- Settlement terms beyond the status the attorney reports.
The injury stays with the player.
A trade, a cut, or a retirement ends the attention an injury gets. It does not end the filing window. The record keeps the injury with the player, and your former-member rules keep applying. Post-career and cumulative-trauma rules differ by state, so the list carries the question to an attorney instead of answering it.
The panel’s own work runs on the same platform. Nothing is handed between vendors.
Three steps. One season.
Program pricing is set with the association. No cost to members.
A working session with the person who keeps the panel list and with counsel: home or game state, coverage, overflow, conflicts, former members, and the message you send.
We run your last two seasons through those rules and show what would have gone where, and which filing clocks ran out with nobody assigned.
Panel attorneys work in ClaimworksESQ. Members hear from you first. The season report starts counting.
The two-season lookback and the weekly injury report by email. For the panel, the ClaimworksESQ workflow: matter setup, records, chronology cited to the page, signing, physician referral and IME drafts.
Routing by your rules, the member message, and the season report. The samples on this page show the planned flow.
Start with
your panel.
Bring your panel list. We run your two-season lookback through your rules and show you the filing clocks that already ran out, before a contract is on the table.
Request a program briefing For players associations. Invented sample data on this page.