FirstPanel
Performance is the advantage.
If you're not First, you're last.
The best way to win a panel.
A letter starts the panel clock. Put your request into FirstPanel and forget about it. On the day it's due, the panel shows up in your email.
When you lose the race
The case doesn't change. What it's worth does.
Same facts, same client, same injury. Somebody else's request got there first, so the exam goes to a specialty you wouldn't have picked, and you try it on their terms.
What that's worth is your number, not ours.
You've seen it on your own files.
And it never reads as a loss. There's nothing to appeal and nothing anyone writes down. The case just comes in lower than it should have, a year later, when nobody's connecting it to five o'clock on a Tuesday.
Win the panels you should win
With FirstPanel, you don't lose a panel because nobody checked the calendar on the due date. You don't lose a panel because it came due while you were on vacation. You don't lose a panel because you were at a hearing and stuck in traffic on the way back.
The request is booked the day you enter the case. Nothing after that depends on anyone remembering it.
With FirstPanel, you don't lose a panel because your panel filer was out sick, or left early to pick up a kid. You don't lose a panel because your most difficult client showed up at the office at 4:55. You don't lose a panel because the office internet was slow, the power was out, or a computer restarted.
The request goes out from our machines at five. Nothing at your office has to work that afternoon, and nobody there has to be free.
With FirstPanel, you don't lose a panel because somebody typed the claim number wrong. You don't lose a panel because the date got calendared wrong.
FirstPanel checks the information in your request against the letter you attached. Fewer mistakes get through.
With FirstPanel, you don't lose a panel because the other side had software and you didn't. You don't lose a panel because their request landed a second before yours.
Software files faster than people, and faster software files first. FirstPanel is built for that one moment and nothing else.
What's coming
Everybody is going to have software.
Today you're racing a person. Somebody across town with the form open and one eye on the clock. That won't last. The other side will have software too, and the day they do, it stops mattering how fast your staff is.
Most of that software will get you to the form quicker. That was never the race. The race is getting through it first, at five o'clock exactly, on a state server everybody in California is hitting at the same second.
FirstPanel is built to beat software, not just people. That one second is the only thing we've worked on since July 2026. Not the paperwork around it. That second.
Faster than any human
When it's due, we submit it faster than any human can match.
The request goes out from a fast, reliable cloud-based server, not from an old office PC with an unstable internet connection. We synchronize to the Medical Unit's own clock instead of the clock on somebody's desk, and when the clock hits 5:00 the request is submitted in less time than it takes to blink an eye.
Every panel request is affected by the same overwhelmed DWC servers, and nobody gets around that. What FirstPanel gives you is the fastest possible submission.
Applicant side only
The defense cannot buy FirstPanel.
FirstPanel is sold to California applicant-side firms and nobody else. Not defense firms, not carriers, not third-party administrators. Not at any price, and that's not going to change.
It was built by a practicing applicant attorney, on his own firm's cases, to win a race he kept losing. Whatever the other side has, they don't have this.
Client data
Isolated to your firm, and encrypted.
Each firm's data is isolated to that firm and encrypted. Documents are uploaded from your browser, text recognition runs on our own machines, and the document goes to the DWC with your request. Nowhere else.
Contact
Find out what it costs to stop losing panels.
Email us for pricing, questions and support. Annual license, priced by firm size, never per filing and never per user. Ask about the free trial.
support@firstpanel.app