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In Pennsylvania, under certain circumstances, a worker cannot recover benefits if an injury occurs on the employer's premises, but her presence on the premises was not required by the nature of her employment.

In Minnesota, workers' compensation courts have authority to hear insurance coverage disputes.

In South Carolina, an injured worker's desire to open a restaurant is too speculative to show that he did not sustain a wage loss.

In Oregon, a fall will be considered unexplained if the worker eliminates all idiopathic factors of causation.

In Connecticut, a worker cannot sue her employer for bad-faith processing of a workers' compensation claim.

In Kentucky, a worker can be entitled to benefits for an injury that occurred off-premises during a paid break if the worker left the premises for a "personal convenience."

In Wyoming, a subsequent injury is compensable if it is causally related to the initial compensable work injury.

In Illinois, evidence that a worker's problems with his preexisting degenerative joint disease resolved prior to his work accident constitutes convincing evidence that his current problems are attributable to his recent work injury.

In Arkansas, a worker's admission that he used illegal drugs that made it harder for him to concentrate will make it difficult for him to rebut the presumption that his injury was substantially occasioned by the use of illegal drugs.

In New York, in addressing a worker's exposure to toxic fumes, the worker does not have to identify the specific substance that allegedly caused or aggravated his conditions.

An employee wellness program that requires employees to undergo a biometric screening and to complete a questionnaire may fall within the safe harbor provision of the ADA if the program is a "term" of the employer's group health plan.

In Oklahoma, a worker who never received temporary total disability benefits cannot prevail on a claim that he was subjected to retaliation when he was terminated during a period of temporary total disability.

In Georgia, a coworker is not protected from a suit brought by an injured worker unless the coworker was acting in the course of employment when he injured a worker.

In Tennessee, a worker who is terminated in retaliation for a workers' compensation claim does not have a meaningful return to work and is entitled to benefits at the statutory maximum of six times the medical impairment rating.

In Washington, the Department of Labor and Industries cannot authorize treatment by a spinal cord stimulator as necessary and proper medical treatment.

In New York, an employer's act of providing permission on one occasion to take home the employer's vehicle does not raise the issue of a frequent and regular practice of providing transportation to its employees.