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In Oklahoma, when a worker suffers an injury at work walking from an employer-designated smoking area to her workstation, that injury is within the scope of employment and the worker may recover benefits.

In order to use the statute of limitations to bar a petition for benefits, the employer must advance the defense in its initial response.

A work-related aggravation of a nonwork-related preexisting condition is an "injury" within the meaning of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.

An employer does not engage in illegal discrimination when it makes reasonable efforts to find an employee an alternative position because his current position endangers his health.

A state agency's liability under the Texas Labor Code is limited to those damages authorized by the Texas Tort Claims Act.

When there is ambiguity in the law, courts typically interpret it in favor of the party the law was designed to protect.

The panel found there was insufficient evidence to establish that the employee knowingly made false statements or representations for the purpose of influencing his workers' compensation claim.

In South Carolina, a worker's AWW includes the actual pay he receives as well as "allowances of any character when they are a specified part of his employment contract."

Under Oklahoma law, if an employee sustains an injury to the cervical spine but does not undergo corrective surgery, her benefits are limited to eight weeks of temporary total disability compensation.

The fact that a treating doctor previously authorized the claimant to receive a massage chair does not necessarily mean the claimant will automatically receive a replacement chair.

The Department of Industrial Accidents will no longer impose a missed appointment fee for impartial workers' compensation medical examinations that are canceled more than 48 hours in advance of the scheduled date.

The North Carolina Industrial Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over workers' compensation claims and all ancillary matters.

In Massachusetts, an employee who refuses to submit to an IME or in any way obstructs it may have his compensation suspended.

In Iowa, there is no public policy that protects from termination an at-will employee who advocates internally for the workers' compensation claim of a fellow employee.

While workers' compensation adjudications may be given preclusive effect in some instances, the Utah Supreme Court declined to allow the third-party defendants to use the workers' compensation finding on the issue of causation to block the employee from relitigating that issue in her personal injury suit.