California workers' comp · SB 863

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RateString turns WPI into a defensible permanent-disability rating — the DEU rating string, Combined Values, apportionment, and indemnity — recalculating live as you type.

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Permanent disability
32% PD
$42,050 total · 145 wks
Combined values · §8
[ 18 · 11 · 7 ] 27 32% PD
100%(15.03.01.008[1.4]11230E1011)=11% PD
The pipeline
WPI×1.4 SB 863occ. variantage adjustPD %CVC combine
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No Calculate button, no reload. Every keystroke reflows the rating string, the Combined Values, and the dollar figures.

F2 · Math

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SB 863 1.4×, occupational and age tables from the official PDRS, the Combined Values Chart, §4663 apportionment, the pain add-on, and the single-extremity cap.

F3 · Trace

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Every rating reads back as the DEU string with a step-by-step, traceable breakdown — the part that makes it defensible.

F4 · Rates

Always-current rates

Statutory weekly-rate caps and PD-weeks brackets are versioned by year, so a rating is never run on a stale table.

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Anatomy of a rating string

The artifact you paste into the report.

100%(15.03.01.008[1.4]11230E1011)=11% PD
15.03.01.00

Impairment № from PDRS §2.

8 → [1.4]11

WPI, then the SB 863 1.4× adjustment.

230E

Occupational group + variant letter.

10 → 11

Occupational then age adjustment.

= 11% PDFinal per-impairment rating — combined across impairments via the Combined Values Chart.
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