Extract data from workers compensation filings

A workers compensation filing is the record that opens a claim when an employee is hurt on the job, and unlike most insurance it runs through a state system rather than a purely private one. Workers compensation is administered state by state, so a claim in New York goes to the New York State Workers Compensation Board and a claim in California to its Division of Workers Compensation, each with its own forms, benefit rates, and deadlines. A claims examiner at the insurance carrier, the employer's HR team, and the treating provider all read the same filing: it names the injured worker and the employer, the date and nature of the injury, the body part affected, the treating provider, the pre-injury wage, and the benefits being paid. When Miguel Santos is injured at Riverside Fabrication Inc. on 2026-03-18 and a claim is filed 2026-03-24 under New York law, that filing starts the benefit calculation. What drives a workers compensation claim is the wage and the benefit rate. Temporary total disability benefits are calculated as a fraction of the worker's average weekly wage, commonly two-thirds, subject to a state maximum, so an average weekly wage of $1,200 produces a weekly benefit of $800 before any statutory cap is applied. That weekly figure, multiplied by the weeks of disability, drives the amount paid to date: ten weeks at $800 comes to $8,000. Beyond the wage, the filing tracks the date of maximum medical improvement, the return-to-work date, any permanent-disability rating, the treating provider and medical records, and the claim and appeal status that tell an examiner where the case stands. Talonic reads the workers compensation filing and returns the worker and employer, the injury detail, the wage and benefit rates, and the payment history as typed fields, with the benefit calculation kept explicit. A claim for an injury on 2026-03-18, with a $1,200 average weekly wage, a two-thirds temporary-disability rate, and $8,000 paid to date in USD, loads into a claims system instead of a retyped form, so an examiner works the file from structured data. This extraction structures what the filing states and does not adjudicate the claim or advise on entitlement.

What gets extracted from workers compensation filings

How extraction works for workers compensation filings

Workers compensation filings arrive as state-board forms, carrier claim-system exports, and scanned medical and wage packets, and because each state runs its own program, the form set and the benefit fields differ by jurisdiction. Talonic classifies the filing and maps it to the workers-compensation schema in the Field Registry, which separates the worker and employer, the injury detail, the wage and benefit rates, and the medical and payment history. Average weekly wage and the temporary and permanent disability rates are typed as numbers in their ISO 4217 currency, so a two-thirds temporary-disability rate applied to a stated average weekly wage can be reconciled against the weekly benefit and the total paid to date. Injury type and affected body part are captured, the injury, filing, maximum-medical-improvement, and return-to-work dates are parsed to ISO 8601, and the claim and appeal status and the governing state law are read as their own fields. Medical treatment records and benefit payments are kept as structured rows. Every value returns with a confidence score and a pixel-region pointer under DIN SPEC 91491, so a claims examiner can verify a wage or a benefit figure against the source filing. Overall, the extraction structures what the filing states and does not adjudicate the claim or determine benefit entitlement.

Sample extraction

A workers compensation claim with wage history and benefit payments

{
  "document_number": "WC-2026-4471",
  "document_date": "2026-03-24",
  "injury_date": "2026-03-18",
  "employee.name": "Miguel Santos",
  "employee.date_of_birth": "1988-02-17",
  "employer.name": "Riverside Fabrication Inc.",
  "injury_type": "Fracture",
  "body_part_affected": "Left wrist",
  "description_of_incident": "Worker slipped on wet floor and fell, fracturing the left wrist",
  "medical_provider.name": "Erie County Orthopedic Clinic",
  "wages.average_weekly_wage": 1200,
  "currency": "USD",
  "benefits.temporary_disability_rate": 0.6667,
  "weekly_benefit_amount": 800,
  "weeks_paid": 10,
  "total_amount": 8000,
  "payment_status": "paid",
  "insurance_carrier": "The Hartford",
  "claim_status": "open",
  "return_to_work_date": "2026-06-01",
  "governing_law": "New York",
  "appeal_status": "no appeal",
  "benefit_payments": [
    {
      "payment_date": "2026-04-03",
      "payment_amount": 3200,
      "benefit_type": "temporary_total_disability",
      "payment_reference": "PMT-0001"
    },
    {
      "payment_date": "2026-05-01",
      "payment_amount": 3200,
      "benefit_type": "temporary_total_disability",
      "payment_reference": "PMT-0002"
    },
    {
      "payment_date": "2026-05-29",
      "payment_amount": 1600,
      "benefit_type": "temporary_total_disability",
      "payment_reference": "PMT-0003"
    }
  ]
}

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