- Before
- “I have 17 days and 1,146 pages. I can't read them all and I can't afford not to.”
- Now
- Starts from a timeline with the gaps shaded and the pages open; spends her time setting the value.
One limits demand, from received to answered
Danielle Ferrante was rear-ended at a red light in Duluth, Georgia, on March 14, 2026. On September 29 her lawyers sent a time-limited demand for the $100,000 bodily-injury limit. Here is what happens next, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 01Oct 12, morning
Nine open demands, sorted by time left
Marisol Vance · Senior bodily-injury adjusterMarisol opens her unit's demands: 9 open in the Atlanta unit, 5 of them time-limited, the next deadline Oct 15. Each track shows how much of the response window is gone. Ferrante v. Paulsen — 1,146 pages, 6 flags, deadline Oct 29 — reads “Ready for your value”, with 17 days left.
“Every demand read the day it arrived.”
- 02Sep 29, 09:12–09:50
1,146 pages, sorted into 15 documents
Package sorterThe package arrived by certified mail. The package sorter split it by provider, date and type — demand letter, Rivermark EMS, Lakemont Regional's emergency department, 34 chiropractic visits at Peachline Spine & Rehab, the MRI, Ridgeline Orthopaedic & Pain, the surgery centre, the pharmacy, 154 pages of bills — and linked 142 faxed duplicates to their originals.
Duplicates are kept and linked to the original, never removed.
- 03The same morning
The terms read, the clock started
Demand terms reader and the other agentsThe demand terms reader found a time-limited offer for the $100,000 limit, received Sep 29: accept by Oct 29, 5:00 pm ET. It started the clock and sent one extra condition to claims counsel. The summarizer placed 42 visits on the timeline; the bill reader coded 211 bill lines; the checker went looking for what the letter left out.
The demand terms reader never decides whether a demand is valid — counsel does.
- 04Opened
The treatment, as a calendar — and the gap shaded in
Marisol Vance · Senior bodily-injury adjusterSeven lanes, from ambulance to pharmacy, March 14 to the deadline, each visit placed on its date with its bill and a running total of $38,529.60 billed. Shaded in the middle: 47 days without treatment, May 8 to June 24. Below it the two pages open side by side — discharged at pain 2/10 with goals met on May 8, and on June 24 “symptoms worsened after moving furniture on June 20.”
“47 days without treatment · May 8 → Jun 24 · p. 409 → p. 592”
- 05One click
Ten visits after maximum medical improvement
Gap and causation checkerA second band covers Aug 19 to Sep 23. Dr. Rao recorded maximum medical improvement on Aug 5 — 5% impairment, no work restrictions, home exercise. Peachline then resumed care at 2 visits a week and billed 10 visits, $3,800.00. Clicking the band opens p. 651 and p. 548 with the lines highlighted.
- 06Two clicks
Re-priced at reasonable value
Marisol Vance · Senior bodily-injury adjusterShe lowers the gap threshold to 14 days and two shorter gaps shade in — 21 days and 14 days. She switches the amounts to reasonable value and every visit and the running total re-price: $14,712.60, against $38,529.60 billed and $3,285.40 paid.
- 07Next
Specials: the letter against the bills
Bill reader and specials calculatorEvery line from the itemised bills, with its codes, beside the record of the visit it pays for. The letter states $40,379.60; the bills total $38,529.60. Leave out the $1,850.00 Sep 30 charge with no bill and the $3,800.00 after MMI, and the specials she evaluates on are $34,729.60 billed, $13,112.60 reasonable value. The employer confirms 12 days of wages, $3,120.00 — not 24.
The bill reader never reduces a bill on its own; it shows the basis for every value.
- 08Decided
Six things the letter does not say
Marisol Vance and Tessa Lindqvist, RNEach flag carries its two pages and what would change it: the 47-day gap, the 10 post-MMI visits, a 2022 neck injury with a prior claim settled, a $148,000.00 fusion surgery the records do not support, the $1,850.00 with no bill, and the wages. Marisol asks for four sets of records in the reply. On flag 2 she asked the nurse; Tessa answered on Oct 9.
“Not medically necessary on this record — MMI with no restrictions (p. 651).” — Tessa Lindqvist, RN
- 09Valued
She sets the value; the reply is drafted from it
Marisol Vance · Senior bodily-injury adjusterMarisol sets a range of $27,500 to $36,000 and an offer of $31,500. The reply to Whitcombe & Saldana is redrafted from those figures: every figure carries its page, it declines the $100,000 offer as made and asks for the gap records, the 2022 records, any surgical recommendation and the Sep 30 bill. Beside it, each of the demand's terms is checked against Georgia's pre-suit offer statute.
“You set the range; the agents never do.”
- 10Sent · 17 days early
Signed, co-signed, sent
Owen Pritchard · Casualty claims supervisorThe offer is over $25,000 and answers a time-limited demand, so it needs a co-signature. Marisol signs at 10:24; Owen Pritchard co-signs at 10:41; the reply goes by email and certified mail at 10:43 on Oct 12 — 17 days before the deadline, with a copy to the claim file.