Legal disclaimer
Last updated: May 4, 2026
1. Informational only
WorkersCompDeadline.us is informational only and does not provide legal advice. Nothing on this site constitutes legal, professional, medical, or financial advice. The content is published for general educational purposes and to help workers orient themselves in their state's workers' compensation system.
2. No attorney-client relationship
No attorney-client relationship is formed by use of this site, by reading any page, by submitting any form, or by otherwise interacting with the calculator or contact mechanisms. WorkersCompDeadline.us is not a law firm. Communication with us is not privileged.
3. Statute-of-limitations rules vary by state and have many exceptions
Statute-of-limitations rules for workers' compensation vary by state and have many exceptions. Notice deadlines, filing deadlines, occupational-disease discovery rules, equitable tolling, minor and disability tolling, last-payment-of-benefits triggers, employer-knowledge exceptions, and post-Estes suspension regimes are all jurisdiction-specific. The calculator and state pages reflect our best read of the statute as of May 4, 2026 and may not capture every exception that applies to your specific situation.
Consult a licensed workers' compensation attorney in your state before relying on a date this site produces.
4. Lawyer-match referral disclosure
Lawyer-match links may direct you to third-party attorney referral partners. We may receive a referral fee from those partners if you ultimately retain an attorney through their network. The referral fee does not affect our editorial content, the order in which states or attorneys appear, or which statute citations we surface. Editorial decisions are made independently of any commercial relationship.
You are not obligated to use any partner. You can find a workers' compensation attorney in your state directly through your state bar's referral service, which is also linked on each state page where applicable.
5. Best-effort accuracy — legislatures amend rules quietly
We do our best to keep the corpus current. State legislatures amend rules silently, and appellate courts can reinterpret a long-standing statute overnight — the Florida 1st DCA's en banc Estes v. Palm Beach County School District ruling on March 23, 2026 reinterpreted Florida Statutes §440.19 and rendered most pre-Estes commentary obsolete. Similar shifts can happen in any state at any time.
The calculator's output is our best read of the statute as of May 4, 2026and may be wrong. It may also be right for the statute as written and wrong for how the agency actually applies it in your county or district. Do not rely on this site as the sole basis for any decision about your workers' compensation claim. Consult a licensed attorney.
6. No warranty
The site is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that any information on the site is correct, complete, or current.
7. Errors and corrections
If a specific page contains an error — a wrong citation, a stale rule, a misread of the statute — please tell us. Use the contact form at /contact. We update within five business days of a verified correction. Our research methodology and per-state primary sources are documented at /sources.
8. Not a substitute for an attorney
The deadline calculator estimates a notice and filing window from a small set of inputs. It does not evaluate whether your employer had actual knowledge of the injury, whether equitable tolling applies, whether a particular medical event qualifies as occupational disease in your state, whether the last-payment-of-benefits rule extends your filing window, whether your employer's failure to post statutory notices tolls the deadline, or any of the dozens of other fact-specific issues that an attorney would assess.
If your deadline is close or has passed, talk to a lawyer in your state immediately. Several exceptions to the on-its-face deadline can apply.