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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.

A worker cannot recover for injuries arising from aggressive participation in horseplay that constitutes a substantial deviation from his employment because such actions do not rise out of and in the course of employment. The worker bears the burden to establish he did not substantially deviate from the employment.

Medical travel expenses of family members are authorized when the travel is medically necessary and when a traveling family member's care is "reasonably required to effect a cure or give relief."

According to Connecticut law, an employer's statutory lien entitles it to a credit for unknown, future workers' compensation benefits that it may become obligated to pay a worker in the full amount of her proceeds from a judgment against or settlement with a third party.

A claimant on house arrest is in constructive custody and is not eligible to receive benefits while serving his sentence regardless of his eligibility for work release.

A professional athlete signed to a team based in the District of Columbia but injured in a game outside the district may be entitled to temporary total disability benefits and temporary partial disability benefits.

In New Jersey, housekeepers with informal businesses are not treated as the employees of their customers and are therefore ineligible for workers' compensation benefits.

In Ohio, preinjury vision can be measured by the levels achieved by preinjury surgery. Postinjury vision is measured by uncorrected vision.

The language of Section 27(2) as amended evinces a clear intent to require payment into the aggregate trust fund of all Section 15(3)(w) awards made after July 1, 2007, regardless of the date of injury.

An injured worker who reopens her workers' compensation case for new medical treatment for a condition acknowledged by an ALJ may be entitled to benefits even if the condition was not assigned a permanent disability rating.

The Industrial Commission has proposed a new rule allowing the services of foreign language interpreters in mediation when a person does not speak or understand the English language.