Conversion tracking for workers' comp, measured in signed cases
Workers' compensation shares personal injury's economics — expensive clicks, valuable cases — with a tighter set of disqualifiers. Jurisdiction is strict, statutory deadlines rule out a share of callers immediately, and whether the employer carries coverage decides the case before anyone reads the file. Counting calls in that environment buys a great deal of intake work and very few cases.
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Getting and tracking leads for workers' comp lawyers
Where a workers' comp firm's calls come from, and which ones are injured workers
A workers' comp practice gets most of its leads by phone: Local Services Ads under the personal injury category, Search ads, the Business Profile, referrals from injury and disability firms, and a steady stream of employers asking about insurance. Count a call when intake confirms a work injury in your state with a claim still open to file or appeal, and record its source in the intake system.
The workers' comp version of the problem: LSA and Search say the phone rang all month, and intake says much of it was HR managers pricing a policy, injured workers from the next state over, and people whose claim was a crash on the clock that belongs with the injury team. 'Workers comp' is searched by employers buying coverage as well as by people hurt at work, the LSA listing sits under personal injury, and intake records rarely say which kind of caller it was.
Every one of those calls counts as a conversion, so bidding learns that insurance searches produce long calls and buys more of them, while the warehouse worker whose claim was just denied gets the same credit as a policy quote. Check it in ten minutes: filter the search terms report for insurance, quote, policy, premium and employer, then open last month's intake records in Lead Docket or Law Ruler and count how many unsigned calls have a reason recorded.
Fixed means employer-side searches are negatives, intake tags every caller as injured worker, employer, out of state or third-party case, LSA job types match the work you take, and signed cases go back to Google Ads with an injury class. Matters sent to or received from injury and disability firms are tagged and kept out of the ad numbers. The free audit checks each of those points against your own intake records.
Where the leads come from
| Channel | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Local Services Ads | Injured workers who call from the top of the page, paid per lead | Runs under 'Personal injury lawyer services'. Turn off the accident job types if the firm takes only workers' comp, since leads for job types you don't serve are no longer credited. |
| Google Search ads | Denied claims, injury types and 'hurt at work' searches | Calls go through a tracking number on the site, so signed cases can be imported by click ID with their injury class. |
| Business Profile | Reviews and hours a worker checks before calling on a break | Profile calls on their own number; keep listed hours accurate, because LSA uses them to decide when a missed call is charged. |
| Meta | Awareness among hourly workers in physical jobs | Judge on signed cases; injury wording in events can trip Meta's sensitive-data controls. |
| Nextdoor | Minor for most comp practices | Track it if a coworker's recommendation shows up there; don't plan budget around it. |
| Injury and disability firm referrals | Matters sent in both directions with PI and Social Security disability practices | Tag them at intake so referral fees and referred-out matters never show up as ad results. |
Which calls count
- Count it when
- Count the call when intake confirms the caller was hurt at work, the employer is in a state the firm practices in, and the claim can still be filed or appealed.
- Minimum duration
- A starting threshold of around a minute and a half, because an employer pricing a policy hangs up quickly but a worker explaining a denial does not; adjust it from recordings and the intake outcome.
- After hours
- Injured workers call before and after shifts, in the early morning and the evening. Staff those edges of the day or schedule ads off when nobody answers: a missed LSA call during listed hours is charged once the caller stays on past 20 seconds.
Where each lead should land
- Local Services Ads call or message
- Intake record with source Google LSA, the caller's number and an injured-at-work flag, matched monthly to the LSA lead list.
- Search ad call or form
- Intake record with the tracked call ID or click ID, so the signed case and its injury class go back to Google Ads.
- Employer or insurance inquiry
- Logged with the reason 'employer or insurance', so it never counts as a lead and the negative list can follow it.
- Referral from an injury or disability firm
- Intake record with the referring firm as source, excluded from paid cost per case.
Workers' comp · what breaks
What workers' compensation attorneys usually run into
- 01
Premium CPCs spent on unqualified calls
Jurisdiction, statute and coverage each remove a large share of inbound.
- 02
Case values treated as uniform
A minor strain and a permanent disability claim are not one conversion.
- 03
Long claim timelines outrunning windows
The fee resolves far past any ad platform's import window.
Workers' comp · the fix
What changes — Workers' comp
Signed cases as the conversion
From the case management system, with an expected value by injury class.
Calls filtered on jurisdiction and statute
Before anything reaches a bidding algorithm.
Expected value by case type, documented
Rather than a settlement figure nobody can know yet.
Workers' comp · architecture
The conversion map for workers' compensation attorneys
Four steps, with three separate disqualification gates.
- 1
Tracked phone call
The dominant channel. Filter by duration.
- 2
Qualified call
Jurisdiction, statutory deadline and employer coverage confirmed.
- 3
Consultation held
Where the claim is assessed properly.
- 4
Case signed
The money event, at expected value by injury class.
- 5
Injury class
Carried on the conversion, because expected values differ widely.
Workers' comp · diagnose
Where workers' compensation attorneys tracking usually breaks
- 01
Unfiltered call conversions
The defining waste in this practice area, given what CPCs cost.
- 02
Statutory deadlines disqualifying callers
A hard filter that no campaign targeting can see.
- 03
Employer coverage status
Decides viability and is unknowable from the ad.
- 04
Fees resolving years later
Which is why expected values, not settlements, drive the conversion.
Workers' comp · prove
How the work is proven
Source of truth
The case management system — cases signed by execution date, by injury class, for the same window
- Signed cases reconciled per matter against what each platform reports.
- The share of calls carrying a session measured, since phone is the funnel.
- Expected values by injury class agreed with the firm and documented.
- The qualification filter confirmed to run before anything is sent.
Workers' comp · free audit
What we check in the free audit
- Unfiltered call conversions
- Statutory deadlines disqualifying callers
- Employer coverage status
- Fees resolving years later
Checked against
The case management system — cases signed by execution date, by injury class, for the same window
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Workers' comp · when not to buy
What lands in your monthly report — Workers' comp
One page a month, in language you can put in front of a managing partner.
- Signed cases and expected values by campaign and injury class.
- Cost per signed case next to cost per call.
- Call-to-case rate by campaign — the number that ends most budget arguments.
- Disqualification reasons by volume, which usually points at targeting.
Workers' comp · what we deliver
The flow we build — Workers' comp
Click identifier captured with the number swap running early
Phone-led intake means a deferred script loses most of the funnel.
Carried into intake and mapped onto the matter
The hop where legal attribution usually dies.
Signed case fires the conversion
With the injury class and expected value.
Declined matters excluded
The majority of intake in this practice area.
Written guarantee
95%+ tracking accuracy
Measured against The case management system — cases signed by execution date, by injury class, for the same window. Miss it and we keep working at no cost.
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FAQ
Workers' comp questions, answered
Not at signing — they resolve years later. Use an expected value by injury class, derived from your own history and documented. That is an honest modelling assumption; a fabricated settlement figure is not, and it would also train bidding on noise.
Only qualified ones. Jurisdiction, statutory deadline and employer coverage each disqualify a meaningful share, and at workers' comp CPCs an unfiltered call conversion is the most expensive mistake in the account.
Not for the fee. It works for the signed case, which happens within days or weeks of the click and fits comfortably inside the import window. Report actual fees separately over the real timeline.
No click, no attribution. Report them separately so they neither flatter nor deflate paid, and so you can see how much of your caseload is genuinely referral-driven.
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