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Under Ohio law, a traveling employee who sustains an injury while engaged in an activity that is consistent with his contract of hire may be covered by workers' compensation.

A treating surgeon's testimony -- that the plaintiff's broken patella, sustained in a work accident, made the plaintiff's overall, preexisting, arthritic knee condition significantly worse and generated pain even after it healed -- is sufficient to support a magistrate's determination that work caused the plaintiff's disability.

An employer's contest is reasonable where the claimant's need to hire an attorney to litigate a claim is unrelated to the employer's actions.

Where an employer's claims adjuster makes an unqualified offer in advance to accept an employee's change of physician request, the employer must honor that request, even if the employee is already being treated by the doctor.

Under Arkansas law, workers' compensation is awarded for a gradual injury if the claimant satisfies five elements. One of these elements requires the claimant to establish that her injury was caused by rapid repetitive motion. Having to complete a shoe every 12 to 14 seconds satisfies this element.

Where the circumstances surrounding an employee's alleged injury are suspicious, including the fact that he left for vacation shortly after the claimed injury, the commission may reasonably reject his version of events and deny workers' compensation benefits. It is the employee's burden to prove that a work-related injury in fact occurred.

In North Carolina, when an employer pays an injured employee disability benefits under a private plan, it is entitled to deduct those payments from the amount to be paid as workers' compensation if it has not accepted the employee's injury as compensable when the disability payments are made.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a family's personal injury suit on the grounds that the workers' compensation exclusivity rule barred the suit.

The Florida District Court of Appeal reversed and remanded the judge of compensation claims' order in which the JCC found that the claimant was entitled to benefits based on the amount she was paid instead of the amount she earned.

In Tennessee, when an employer offers to return an injured employee to work, but the employee resigns for reasons unrelated to her injury, her PPD benefits will be capped at 1 1/2 times her medical impairment rating.

The widow of a police officer could not invoke the statutory presumption of compensability because she did not establish that her husband was exposed to a known carcinogen while employed by the city of Fresno.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a forklift operator's workers' compensation claim on the grounds that it was untimely.

The U.S. District Court, Central District of California denied the employer's request to exclude evidence concerning the claimant's loss of earnings claim.

The Kentucky Supreme Court held that a workers' compensation insurer's conduct reasonably induced the claimant to file his claim late. As a result, the insurer was estopped from asserting a statute of limitations defense.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court vacated the amount of a partial disability award and returned the case for a "reasoned computation" of the award, as it was unclear how the administrative judge determined that the claimant had a weekly earning capacity of $975.

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upheld the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board's grant of the claimant's claim petition.