Hearing loss, average weekly wage, and the §8(f) pre-existing condition.
Longshore and Defense Base Act review reads a deployment file for the 3 things the Benefits Review Board actually rules on: hearing-loss impairment under the AMA Guides, average weekly wage, and §8(f) pre-existing disability. Defense Base Act filings nearly doubled last year, and foreign-provider records and decades of prior injury history come with them.
The statute names the rulebook. The Board publishes the grades.
We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the person who grades the file against it. Longshore and Defense Base Act claims give us both in writing.
Hearing loss is the clearest case: the Longshore Act does not leave the method to argument, it names the AMA Guides in the statute itself. Everything downstream of that is a question about what the pages say.
400 pages on a quiet claim. 2,000 on a deployed one.
A longshore or Defense Base Act file typically runs 400 to 2,000 pages, with about 1,200 in the middle of the range, and it almost never arrives as one production. It arrives as several, months apart, from a shipyard clinic, a theater medical facility, a stateside orthopedist, and an audiologist, each with its own numbering.
What makes it hard is not the length. It is faxed scans that degraded years ago, handwritten treatment notes, foreign-provider records in another language, and the same discharge summary reproduced across 3 productions under 3 different exhibit numbers.
The volume is not theoretical. DOL reported 46,961 injuries and deaths in FY2024, up from 35,239, with Defense Base Act cases alone at 27,342, a 77% year-over-year surge, against $1.595B in compensation paid.
4 steps, starting with one real file.
Send one real file
A contested longshore or DBA claim you already have, in whatever shape it arrived. Multiple productions, degraded scans, and non-English records are the normal case, not an exception we need you to clean up first.
We return the read, page-cited
The chronology, the audiometric testing, the wage and employment records, and the prior injury history, each line linked to its source page. In the demo case, 342 pages across 2 productions, 11 duplicates removed and a wrong-patient page quarantined before the read started.
We scope the build
Your output template, your section order, your terminology. Longshore claims adjusters, DBA claims specialists, and Longshore counsel want different things out of the same production, so the build follows whoever is signing the file.
You run it
Your team runs the files and reviews every output. We never rate impairment, decide compensability, or file anything with the District Director. The read is an input to a decision a person makes.
The rules the platform never breaks.
EVERY LINE CITED
HIPAA, under a signed BAA
Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement, from the first byte.
Never trains a model
Your records are never used to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's.
Every line cited
If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every sentence links to its source page.
Deleted after delivery
Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with a full audit log of every access.
4 capabilities behind every longshore read.
The longshore and Defense Base Act read is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, and cites the whole record.
Medical Chronology
Deployment, treatment, and prior injury history assemble into one dated timeline, synced to every source page across every production.
Medical Record Translation
Defense Base Act files arrive with theater and foreign-provider records in other languages. They are read and carried into the chronology beside the source page.
Record Alteration Detection
Where the same document appears in more than one production with differences, the discrepancy is surfaced and cited rather than resolved silently in the background.
Verifiable AI Citations
Every level of Longshore review decides on a written record, so every line we return links back to the page it was pulled from.
Medical Record Deduplication
Distinct from alteration detection: where the same page repeats byte-for-byte across 2 productions, it is confidence-scored and collapsed to one canonical copy instead of read twice.
Missing Records Identification
A deployment or treatment date referenced in one production but whose own record never appears in either — flagged before the District Director's written decision, not after.
Cross-Exam Simulator (beta)
Before an OALJ hearing, the same file is checked for the inconsistencies and gaps most likely to come up when the examining physician is cross-examined — a rehearsal tool, not a legal opinion.
Longshore and Defense Base Act review, answered.
Send one file. We'll tell you what we can read.
No obligation. If the case type is buildable we'll scope it; if it isn't, we'll say so.