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In Tennessee, the injured employee always has the burden of proving entitlement to workers' compensation benefits.

In Wisconsin, for an injured worker subject to a protective placement order, the department can't review whether the worker is in the least restrictive placement. The department may determine only whether the medical expenses associated with the worker's placement are compensable.

Under Illinois law, a traveling employee's act of warming up her car in cold weather to ensure it would start at the end of the workday constitutes a reasonable and foreseeable act.

According to 11th Circuit, Medicare must defer to state law in asserting its right to recover medical payments under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act.

In Maine, an injury arising from a car accident while traveling to a workers' compensation mediation session does not arise out of and in the course of employment.

In Louisiana, an employee typically remains in the course of her employment while she is on a permitted break.

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.