Walk in with the math already done.
The rating drives the case value, and the side that computes it first frames the negotiation. RateString runs the full 2005 PDRS pipeline — ×1.4 or FEC, occupational variant, age, apportionment, CVC — the day the report lands, prints the DEU-format string, and stands behind every number with an audit trail verified against the DIR’s published examples.
What RateString does for comp attorneys
Audit the other side's rating
Paste opposing counsel's rating string — every segment decodes and recomputes against the PDRS tables, including the implied age bracket. Wrong variant, wrong age, bad combine: it surfaces in seconds.
Decode a string →Your rating vs. theirs, line by line
Load both sides' positions on the same case — per-impairment deltas, combined results, and the dollar spread. Paste their string straight in; the compare becomes an exhibit page.
Part of Pro →Court-ready PDFs with the work shown
Rating, string, step-trace appendix, your letterhead. Print-paginated for the board file — the exhibit does the persuading because the math is checkable.
Sample exhibit →The settlement anchor, computed
Weeks, weekly rate, total indemnity, life-pension exposure at 70%+, and the fee estimate — the computable half of every demand and authority memo.
Settlement calculator →2005–2012 FEC and SB 863
Pre-2013 dates rate under the FEC ranks with era-correct caps and the §4658(d) RTW ±15%; 2013+ under the flat ×1.4. Split multi-DOI apportionment rates each date separately, Benson-style.
Open the calculator →Every statutory deadline, from the DOI
The 90-day window, the earliest §5405 date, the §5410 five-year window, the TD outer wall — computed with live day counts. Starting points for the calendar, flagged where counsel judgment applies.
Deadline calculator →The library that's always current
Money chart for any injury year, statutory rate caps, 45 occupational groups, every guide engine-verified — the bookshelf, minus the binders.
All the tools →The litigation shelf
Every figure engine-computed, every statute cited — written for the side of the table that has to defend the number.
Built and maintained by a practicing California workers’ comp attorney. Estimates for informational use; verify ratings against the DEU. Not legal advice.
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