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The Department of Consumer and Business Services, Workers' Compensation Division issued a bulletin providing the workers' compensation premium assessment rate to be applied against premium earned during 2011.

In North Carolina, where a worker's injury is compensable, there is a presumption that additional medical treatment is directly related to the compensable injury.

Injured workers in West Virginia can receive temporary total disability benefits and Social Security disability benefits for the same injury. The Social Security benefits are reduced to prevent a double recovery.

A worker in California can receive additional compensation when he is injured by the serious and willful misconduct of an executive, managing officer, or general superintendent of the employer.

The Department of Industrial Accidents promulgated a new form to verify workers' compensation coverage, which will be used by employers located in other states but conducting business and employing workers in the state.

The Workers' Compensation Board proposed a rule to implement the independent livery driver benefit fund, which provides workers' compensation benefits in limited situations to independent livery drivers.

In Florida, where the testifying medical experts are unable to find objective evidence of physical or structural abnormalities for the claimant's subjective complaints, the claimant has not established a compensable pulmonary condition arising out of a throat injury.

The Compensation Rating Bureau issued a circular announcing an adjustment in the assigned risk surcharge.

The Department of Labor and Workforce Development revised regulations dealing with fees and other charges for medical treatment and services.

Although Louisiana courts consider a number of factors in determining whether a worker is a borrowed servant, the right of control factor weighs heavily.

In Alabama, in cases involving a sudden and traumatic event, an employee must produce substantial evidence showing that the alleged incident occurred and that the accident caused or was a contributing cause of the injury.

In Indiana, an employee may work in a dual capacity for the same employer and be covered by workers' compensation while engaged in one capacity and excluded from benefits while engaged in the other.

Kentucky law requires an 8 percent impairment rating for income benefits to be awarded for hearing loss and has a two-year statute of limitations that is triggered when a physician tells a worker of his injury and its cause.

Where the claimant's assault by his supervisor was the result of the supervisor's belief that the claimant took property from work, the claimant's injuries sustained in the assault arose out of and in the course of his employment.

A general disability award in South Carolina requires a showing of a loss of earning capacity. If a worker is capable of running a business, he is ineligible for disability benefits.