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According to California law, impairment ratings are calculated with an allowance for a physician's clinical judgment in cases that do not fit neatly into the diagnostic criteria and descriptions laid out in the AMA Guides.

In Wyoming, when an antidepressant is prescribed to treat a compensable physical injury, benefits can be awarded.

To establish medical causation in cases involving an accident, the worker must show that the accident caused or was a contributing cause of the injury.

Personal observation is not the only means of evaluating testimony. The commission can give less weight to a worker's testimony when it conflicts with other evidence.

The Workers' Compensation Division issued Bulletin 345 telling insurers how to apply employer-paid medical reimbursement claim costs for individual claims for unit statistical reporting purposes and providing updated maximum reimbursement amounts.

For a psychological condition to be compensable under Kentucky's physical exertion standard, the physical exertion must have caused the mental harm or be directly related.

If a question of fact exists regarding whether a worker suffered an aggravation of a preexisting injury, summary judgment should be denied.

For purposes of determining compensability of lunchtime accidents, lunch breaks should not be treated the same as personal comfort breaks.

When an employee returns to work after reaching maximum medical improvement and earns the same or higher wages, loss of earning capacity is not considered in assessing the compensation due to the employee for any permanent disability.

To prove causation in a chemical exposure case, a worker must establish that the solvent exposure was the cause of his impairment within a reasonable medical probability.

The Division of Workers' Compensation has proposed amendments to rules regarding sanction criteria and severability.

The Division of Workers' Compensation proposed amendments that reduce the number of attachments required to be sent with benefit notices.

In Alaska, negligence suits against project owners are barred under the exclusive remedy provision of the law. The definition of project owner is not narrowly construed to only include construction projects.

According to Tennessee law, a temporary worker's average weekly wage is calculated by dividing the amount of earnings by the number of weeks worked. In cases where a worker earns a given sum for a normal week, the given sum should be the average weekly wage.

Evidence that the claimant engaged in suspicious conduct regarding a post-accident drug test and changed his story regarding how his injury occurred supports a finding that the employer's contest of the claim was reasonable.

A domestic servant employed in a private home is specifically excluded from coverage by the Missouri workers' compensation law.