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The date of disability includes the first date the worker sought medical treatment for the injury without regard to his actual incapacity to work.

The Louisiana Court of Appeal affirmed a finding that an employee with a disability did not commit fraud in her dealings with her carrier-appointed sitters.

In Tennessee, an employee is not acting within the course of employment when she is going to or coming from work unless the injury occurs on the employer's premises.

In Ohio, the "chain of causation" approach is used to determine whether suicide was a proximate result of a work-related injury and therefore an exception to the rule that suicides are not compensable. However, Ohio courts have declined to extend the chain of causation approach to include accidental deaths caused by drug abuse.

In Utah, workers' compensation payments made to claimants receiving retirement benefits after the court published its Merrill v. Utah Labor Comm'n opinion on April 24, 2009, are not subject to a 50 percent reduction in benefits.

The Bureau of Workers' Compensation board of directors adopted new fee schedules that will increase overall reimbursements to ambulatory surgical centers and vocational rehabilitation providers that treat injured workers.

The fact that an employer's records do not document a specific incident that resulted in an injury does not necessarily prove that the incident did not occur.

In Georgia, a court may allow an insurance carrier to intervene in a worker's lawsuit where the carrier has an interest and its ability to protect its subrogation rights would be impaired by the outcome of the case.

In the 5th Circuit, a history of disciplinary and performance problems can undermine an employee's claims of disability discrimination once an employer decides to discharge the employee.

In dissolution of marriage proceedings, a court must divide workers' compensation benefits like other marital property.

In Texas, a case "arises" under workers' compensation law from the instant it becomes clear that the worker will have to invoke, explain and apply workers' compensation law. An antiretaliation suit arises under state workers' compensation law and must be brought in state court.

In North Carolina, where there are exceptional reasons making the usual method of computing AWW unfair to the employer or employee, the commission can use another method that will most nearly approximate the amount the injured employee would be earning if it was not for the injury.

Although circumstances can make locating a willing physician difficult, difficulty alone does not relieve a carrier of its obligation to provide an injured worker with reasonable and necessary medical care.

In Illinois, where a vendor and the state control aspects of the employee's work and benefit from his services, both parties are liable as joint employers under the Workers' Compensation Act.

Under California law, to show that an employer discriminated based on a work-related injury, the employee must demonstrate that the employer would have treated a worker who suffered a nonwork-related injury differently. An action that is detrimental to an employee does not necessarily mean that the employer singled out the employee for discrimination based on the nature of his injury.

An employer is not required to grant a disabled employee an indefinite leave of absence as an accommodation.