About WorkersCompDeadline.us

A free, statute-cited information hub for workers’ compensation filing deadlines in the United States. The site has two products: a deadline calculator that takes your state and injury date and returns your notice and filing deadlines, and a 50-state reference that surfaces the underlying statutes, exceptions, and recent changes.

We are not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice. We do not represent clients. We do not file claims for you.

Most workers searching for “how long do I have to file workers’ comp in {state}” land on one of two kinds of pages: a law-firm marketing page that frames every fact as a reason to call this firm right now, or a stale Justia or FindLaw scrape with a copy of a statute that may have been amended years ago.

Neither answers the question for the worker's actual situation. We cite the actual statute, link to the state legislature, and let the calculator do the math for the user's specific dates. The user leaves with a date, a citation, and a clear sense of what their state requires — not a sales call.

Every deadline number on this site traces to a primary source — the state legislature's official codified statutes server, or, where that wasn't reachable, the state agency charged with administering workers' compensation. We do not rely on Justia, FindLaw, or Nolo as authoritative; those are useful for cross-checking but they are not the law.

The full bibliography, methodology, and per-state primary source URLs live on our Sources & Methodology page. Statutes that we couldn't verify against a primary source within the research window are flagged partial rather than presented as fully verified.

Every state page links the codified statute on its primary source — the state legislature or the workers' compensation commission, never a third-party scraper. You can verify every citation against the law itself in one click. We re-check the entire corpus on a quarterly cadence and after any reported correction. The last full review was May 4, 2026.

We do not paraphrase statutory language without citing it. Where a court has materially altered the statute's meaning — as the Florida 1st DCA did in Esteson March 23, 2026 — we update the state page and flag the change with a dated note.

Corrections. If you find a wrong citation, a stale rule, or a misread, write to us at /contact. We update within five business days of a verified correction and credit the source.

WorkersCompDeadline.us is an independent, source-cited information hub. We don't put fabricated bios, made-up review boards, or stock-photo "teams" on the site. When we have a real licensed reviewing attorney to attribute and a real founder bio worth publishing, they will appear here under their real names with verifiable credentials.

We do not use stock photography of injured workers or suit-wearing handshake archetypes. The visual weight of this site is carried by the statute citations, the date pins, and the calculator output — not by stock imagery designed to fake gravitas.