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Public hearing to discuss amendment to construction rules.

The program allows a carrier to obtain credits against its Pool participation base by writing assigned risks voluntarily in the regular market.

In Colorado, a claimant's AWW may be calculated according to a discretionary exception to the default method of calculation.

In Tennessee, if a work injury advances the severity of a preexisting condition or if, as a result of the preexisting condition, the employee suffers a new, distinct injury other than increased pain, the work injury is compensable.

Where the claimant resides for months at a time with different family members and the E/C pays his mileage from one of the family members' homes to his doctor's office, it may be ordered to pay mileage from another member's home even though that member's home is further away.

Under New Hampshire's Workers' Compensation Law, an employee is defined as any person who works for an employer "under any express or implied, oral or written contract of hire."

Under Kentucky law, an employee must give notice of a work-related accident to his employer as soon as practicable after the accident occurs. An employer's insurance carrier may be deemed the employer's agent or representative for purposes of the notice requirement.

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 does not prevent the Workers' Compensation Commission from awarding permanent total disability benefits to an undocumented alien.

In Virginia, when a claimant is injured while fighting with a coworker, the injury arises out of employment only when the claimant satisfies two elements.

A parish school board is not exempt from paying interest, penalties and attorney's fee awards for unilaterally discontinuing an eligible employee's workers' compensation benefits.

In West Virginia, a worker or his representative may not sue the worker's employer or a coworker for wrongful death if the accident arose out of and in the course of employment unless he meets one of three statutory exceptions to immunity.

The Division of Workers' Compensation issued a Notice of Development of Rulemaking.

The Division of Workers' Compensation notified the workers' compensation community that the mileage rate for medical and medical-legal travel expenses decreased to 55 cents per mile.

In Texas, a trial court does not abuse its discretion by allowing a physician to testify as to the cause or progression of a workers' compensation injury.

A domestic employee is not entitled to workers' compensation benefits in Louisiana. The fact that she is paid by an entity rather than the couple who hired her does not change her eligibility for benefits.