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The Division of Workers' Compensation announces rate adjustments.

In New Mexico, employers who retaliate against workers for seeking workers' compensation benefits must rehire the workers.

In New York, if the claimant faints while giving blood or immediately thereafter or can show that her fainting was causally related to her donating blood, then her resulting injuries are compensable.

In Ohio, a worker can receive benefits for the loss of two fingers and a toe after a surgical amputation and reattachment to her thumb because she was missing the digits after reattachment and recovery.

The Division of Workers' Compensation proposed revisions to regulations regarding qualified medical evaluators.

The Workers' Compensation Court proposed amendments to the rules of procedure.

In Louisiana, a worker cannot receive penalties and attorney's fees for a delay in payment that is completely out of the employer's control.

In Wisconsin, an employer's refusal to rehire a worker because of the worker's alleged fraudulent scheme can be overcome by the worker's lack of intent to propose a fraudulent scheme.

In Georgia, a lump-sum payment of future income benefits to prevent extreme hardship is not subject to conversion into weekly income benefits paid to compensate for lost income in calculating the statute of limitation on reimbursement.

In South Carolina, every natural consequence flowing from a work-related compensable injury is also compensable unless the consequence is the result of an independent, intervening cause sufficient to break the chain of causation.

In Kansas, to establish task loss, a physician must opine that the injured worker lost the ability to perform a percentage of work tasks performed in the 15 years before the accident.

In Washington, a worker injured in another state can file a third-party claim in Washington if the suit does not require re-litigating issues already decided in a final determination.

In California, an exception to workers' compensation exclusivity exists where an employer fraudulently conceals the existence of the injury and its connection with the employment.

The Department of Industrial Accidents proposed revised chronic pain treatment guidelines.

In Ohio, an injured worker can sue his employer for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy if the worker was terminated after he was injured on the job but before he filed a workers' compensation claim.

The Division of Workers' Compensation is considering amending rules regarding the pharmacy fee guideline and pharmaceutical expenses incurred by the injured worker.