Software for California workers' compensation law firms that prepares and files QME panel requests with the Division of Workers' Compensation.
When a medical dispute arises in a California workers' compensation case, a party requests a panel of Qualified Medical Evaluators from the DWC Medical Unit using Form 106. The request cannot be filed whenever the firm is ready. The earliest permitted date depends on which Labor Code section applies — 4060, 4061 or 4062 — and on when and from where the triggering letter was mailed, which sets either a 15-day or a 20-day waiting period.
FirstPanel handles that calculation and the filing:
California workers' compensation law firms — applicant-side and defense — and the staff who prepare panel requests. It is built for firms that file these regularly enough that the deadline arithmetic and the timing are a recurring administrative burden.
It is not a legal advice service and it does not make legal judgments. The firm decides which Labor Code section applies and what to file; FirstPanel calculates dates from the firm's own inputs, checks the paperwork for consistency, and submits on time.
FirstPanel is a paid business-to-business subscription service. Firms subscribe; there is no free tier, no advertising, and no consumer product. Accounts are created for a named firm, and every user belongs to one. Pricing is quoted per firm — write to the address below.
FirstPanel runs entirely on Amazon Web Services, in the US West (N. California) region. Case data is held in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL; documents are held in Amazon S3, encrypted with a customer-managed AWS KMS key. TLS is terminated on our own instances.
Case data is isolated at the database level by PostgreSQL row-level security — cases, case notes, filings, and uploaded documents. The rule is enforced inside the database rather than by the application, so a query that forgets to name the firm returns nothing at all instead of somebody else's client.
Account records are separated by the application rather than by the database, and the reason is structural. Someone signing in has to be found before there is any firm to scope the search to, so the user table, pending invitations and the audit log sit outside that database rule and are filtered in code. We would rather tell you which of the two mechanisms protects what than let one sentence cover both.
Documents uploaded by a firm are never processed by a third-party service — text recognition on scanned letters runs on our own infrastructure, so client correspondence is not sent anywhere else to be read.
Amazon Web Services is the only sub-processor with access to case data. Inbound email to this domain is routed by Cloudflare, which has no access to the service or to any document. Both are named, with what each one does, in the privacy policy.
Both are published in full, in force, and written to be read rather than skimmed.
The privacy policy also states plainly what we would tell a firm, and when, if there were ever a security breach affecting their data.
FirstPanel sends transactional email only, to the registered users of subscribing firms, about that firm's own filings — confirmation that a request was submitted, the panel that came back, and alerts when something needs attention. Sign-in and account security messages are the other category.
There are no newsletters, no marketing campaigns and no purchased or rented lists. Every recipient is an authenticated user of a paid account who was added by their own firm's administrator.
Email support@firstpanel.app for subscription inquiries, support, or security questions. We reply to all of them.
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