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A public hearing will be held on Aug. 7, 2009, at 9 a.m. in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, 633 17th Street, Denver, regarding proposed rule revisions to the Medical Fee Schedule.

The nation's first standard to safeguard workers from the spread of airborne diseases was approved California's Office of Administrative Law and filed with the secretary of State on July 8, 2009.

For adverse actions occurring before the effective date of the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, mitigating measures may be considered to determine whether an individual is disabled.

A hearing on the notice of proposed rulemaking for the Division of Workers' Compensation's Rule 69L-24, F.A.C., Workers' Compensation Insurers' Standards and Practices, will be held if requested within 21 days of the date the notice was published.

A workers' compensation board panel held that the worker made fraudulent statements about his volunteer activities and misrepresented his condition to the independent medical examining doctor.

Under Florida's workers' compensation law, an employee may satisfy the requirement if he reports his earnings to the Internal Revenue Service in January of the year after his work injury.

Under Delaware law, an employer may be required to compensate an employee for a subsequent work-related injury to the same body part.

Where an employer supplies a worker with a prescription card to obtain medication for his work-related injury, it cannot insist that the worker submit the bills on the proper forms as a prerequisite for payment.

The Oregon OSHA has proposed changes to Division 1, General Administrative Rules.

An employee is not barred from receiving workers' compensation benefits where evidence establishes that the employee provided false Social Security numbers to secure employment, not to obtain benefits.

In New Jersey, mental disabilities are compensable when they arise out of job-related related stress and anxiety.

The Workers' Compensation Section issued an amendment to the computation of the state's maximum average monthly wage for FY 2010, for workers' compensation purposes, effective July 1, 2009.

In Idaho, an employer has actual knowledge of a psychological workplace injury if the employee also suffered "violence to the physical structure of her body" and the employer was aware of the physical injury.

The Division of Workers' Compensation proposes to amend regulations within Article 4, Subchapter 1 of Chapter 4.5 of Title 8, California Code of Regulations relating to health care organizations.

The Oregon OSHA has issued proposed changes to the Worker Protection Standard in Agriculture, General Industry, and Forest Activities, OAR 437-004-6000 in Division 4/W.