Category: Workers Compensation Resources
What do you use Verify!® for?
A few weeks ago I launched a Social Security Number verification tool powered by Verify!®. Since its launch its become a very popular tool. One of the coolest things about having these calculators is finding out all of the new ways people think of to use them. These new and unintended uses are almost always far more interesting than the original pedestrian reasons for which a tool was created.
Take Silly Putty for instance. Silly Putty was originally created as a potential replacement for rubber during World War II. It didn’t work as a replacement for rubber, scientists were unable to think of a use for it, and it sat in a lab for years before a toy store owner began stuffing it in plastic eggs. ((Photo courtesy of unloveablesteve))
Here are a few ideas:
- Use it to determine whether someone is a U.S. citizen.
- Use it to double-check someone’s year of birth.
- Use it to determine approximately when someone became a U.S. citizen. ((I thought of this one during a deposition last week when a deponent couldn’t recall when they first came to the United States. I just fired up the cell phone web browser, went to the calculator page, and asked the follow up question.))
- Use it to determine whether someone is potentially Medicare eligible. ((Thanks Chris!))
What other uses can you think of?
Happy Belated Birthday!
I’ve been so busy lately I completely forgot to mention PDRater’s second birthday! ((Photo courtesy of rmansoorian))
This site was launched on July 23, 2007. For both of you who were using it back then, you remember it was an ugly ugly baby.
I’ve really enjoyed working on this website for the last two years. I use the word “work,” but I don’t really mean it. Building calculators, creating charts, and unraveling the mysteries of Ogilvie are my hobbies too. :)
What would you like to see from this website in the coming year? Please let me know in the comments or send me an e-mail. I already have several (more) new calculators in the pipeline, but I’m always open to ideas.
ANOTHER NEW Calculator!
I’ve just built another new workers’ compensation calculator. Actually, it is a look up tool that will help workers’ compensation professionals file documents with EAMS. ((Photo courtesy of Irene on the run))
While I think the recent Verify!® social security number validator may be more intriguing for defense attorneys and claims examiners, I think this new EAMS tool will probably be more useful to Applicant attorneys.
Interested? Just drop me a line to become a beta tester!
Verify!® Social Security Number Validator
As promised! A new calculator!
Well, check out my new social security number online search tool, powered by Verify.com. It has some pretty cool features. You can Verify!®:
- whether a social security number is in a valid format
- what year a social security number was issued
- in what state the social security number was issued
- whether the person to whom the social security number has passed away