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In Iowa, a workers' compensation commissioner can consider a worker's limited knowledge of English as a factor that contributes to his inability to find employment.

In Wyoming, an employment contract that expressly states that per diem payments do not include pay for travel time or mileage will prevent an accident during a worker's commute from home to work from being considered compensable.

In Kentucky, when an injured worker is unable to perform work for which she has previous training or experience, she is entitled to vocational rehabilitation services as reasonably necessary to restore her to suitable employment.

In North Carolina, in order to prove the existence of an occupational disease, a worker must show a causal connection between the disease and the employment.

In Louisiana, a worker's heart-related injury is compensable if the physical work stress went beyond what was usual, regular, or customary in relation to the average employee in the occupation. The requirement does not mean that the job duty being performed is outside the worker's job restriction.

In Louisiana, a worker's termination for violating an employer's policies will cut off her supplemental earnings benefits.

In New York, a heart injury that is brought on by overexertion or strain in the course of daily work is compensable.

In Georgia, the distinguishing feature that will characterize a disability as a change of condition or a new accident is the intervention of new circumstances.

In Arizona, employees of Indian tribes cannot receive workers' compensation from the state. Rather, they must file claims with the tribe's workers' compensation carrier.

In North Carolina, if a worker is injured on premises controlled by the employer on a lunch break the circumstances are within the course of employment.

In Pennsylvania, in cases where the causal connection between a worker's work and his injury is not obvious, the connection must be established by unequivocal medical testimony.

In Kentucky, injuries arising from a workplace assault are not compensable if the attack was related to personal grievances between the parties.

In California, in order for a per diem payment to be exempt from payroll calculations for a workers' compensation insurance premium, an employer must have records showing that a worker worked at a job location that would have required the worker to incur additional expenses not normally assumed by the worker.

In Michigan, the commission will defer to the magistrate's credibility determination where such determination is reasonable.

In Arkansas, the fact that a worker could not determine the exact moment he sustained an injury does not prevent him from proving that he suffered a compensable injury as a result of a specific incident.