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Massachusetts law and the ADA prohibit employers from making a preemployment inquiry regarding an applicant's medical and disability status. According to the 1st Circuit, an applicant cannot sue for violations of the state law unless he can show an injury caused by the illegal questioning.

To receive workers' compensation benefits for mental stress in Utah, an employee must show that her work-related stress outweighs her nonwork-related stress.

A doctor who evaluates a claimant and subsequently becomes employed by the insurer cannot render an independent, unbiased opinion on the employee's condition.

An employer can be held liable for workers' compensation benefits that include wages from an employee's second job.

Workers' compensation benefits must be reduced to the statutory maximum before any pension offset is calculated.

In determining whether a temporary employee is employed by an employment agency or the contracting company, Ohio courts focus on the day-to-day control of the worker rather than administrative matters.

When an employer sends a denial letter after the statute of limitations for inactive matters has expired, the letter does not revive the running of a new statute of limitations.

An airline employee injured while traveling to or from work on a free or reduced cost flight may be acting within the course of employment.

The Compensation Rating Bureau announced the new service of a rate guide report posted on the bureau's Web site.

When an employer has a valid reason for terminating an employee who has filed a workers' compensation claim, the discharge is not in retaliation.

Employees have the burden of showing their current condition was caused by the work-related injury, especially when there is conflicting medical testimony.

The employer's failure to present any evidence regarding the claimant's level of impairment due to marijuana usage undercuts its argument that the accident was caused by drug use.

In Indiana, a jury in a personal injury suit may hear evidence that the injured worker received workers' compensation benefits and may consider these payments in making a damages award.

Benefits are not calculated based on the maximum rate in effect at the time of disablement. The maximum rate at the time of injury is based on the time of the accident.

Although Arkansas law states that an accident that was "substantially occasioned by the use of drugs" is not a compensable injury, this rule does not take a case involving drug use outside the workers' compensation system. A worker cannot sue his employer in court merely because his accident involved drug use.