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The Industrial Commission proposed to amend rules regarding workers' compensation filing requirements.

In Mississippi, an injured workers' receipt of disability retirement benefits does not mean her injury occurred in the course and scope of her employment.

In West Virginia, when a worker's main employer bills the special employer to compensate for expenses, including workers' compensation coverage, the special employer is immune from a lawsuit under workers' compensation.

In Missouri, a worker can be entitled to benefits if he is performing a direct function of his employment and is injured due to an unsafe condition over which he had no control.

In Arkansas, rather than offsetting a worker's wage-loss benefits with the entire amount of her retirement benefits, only the amount she received as a result of her disability beyond her early retirement benefits should offset her wage-loss benefits.

In Connecticut, a worker's alleged intoxication is not a jurisdictional bar for his claim for benefits but an employer's affirmative defense to compensability.

The Department of Labor and Industries adopted rules that updated the conversion factors and maximum daily fees for certain professional health care services for injured workers.

In Delaware, a worker who is injured while she is traveling home after clocking out of work is not entitled to benefits.

In Pennsylvania, a worker's loss of earnings resulting from her termination for misconduct unrelated to the injury cannot be causally connected to work-related injury. The worker is not entitled to disability benefits for that loss.

In Florida, a claimant's domestic violence infraction from more than 25 years ago and before she began working for the employer does not qualify as misconduct so as to warrant the denial of TPD benefits.

In Connecticut, the direct and natural consequence rule should be utilized in analyzing the causation in cases involving a subsequent injury or an aggravation of an earlier, primary injury.

In Iowa, a worker must show that a mental injury was caused by workplace stress of greater magnitude than the daily mental stresses experienced by other workers.

The Workers' Compensation Division issued a bulletin regarding self-insured base rates and election of method used for determination of premium.

In Ohio, an employer's duty to provide safety equipment is not contingent on a worker's request for the safety equipment.

In Missouri, a worker's injury is deemed to arise out of and in the course of her employment if it did not come from a hazard or risk to which she would have been equally exposed in her normal nonemployment life.