The Division of Workers' Compensation will be closing a testing environment established for external forms developers to test the forms they created for use in the Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS).
The lab, which opened last June at DWC headquarters in Oakland, was designed to provide a place for vendors who produce court forms to test those forms to ensure they are compatible with EAMS. The lab will close January 16, 2009.
Anyone interested in using the forms testing lab before it closes must reserve a space by sending an email to EAMS@dir.ca.gov by January 7, 2009. Please put "forms testing lab" in the subject line of the message.
The lab was designed to enable forms developers to test the optical character recognition (OCR) forms they created for use in auto-populate systems to ensure they worked in an equivalent manner to the OCR forms created by the DWC.
The testing lab was also designed to be temporary and was originally scheduled to close August 1st. However, DWC extended the testing environment until early in 2009 at the request of forms developers.
At the time the lab opened, the DWC forms were still in draft form. The final forms were approved with the EAMS regulations on November 17th.
Filers were provided a four-week transition period between when regulations requiring use of OCR forms became effective (November 17) and when their use became mandatory for filing at district offices on December 12th.
The approved forms and the regulations are available on the DWC Web site or through WorkInjury.com - either in the left margin or top blue drop-down menus ("Law & Forms" tab).
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