Honolulu, HI (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Are you looking to boost your Hawaii workers' compensation vocab? Look no further. Here's a chunk of state law devoted to volunteer officers and the like. "Police chaplain" means a member […]

Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- While an injured worker certainly has an interest in receiving her workers' compensation benefits, does she have a vested property interest in them? Not according to the court in Farmbry v. […]

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When the Iowa Workers' Compensation Division decides an investigation is required for the medical details of a worker's injury, what happens? Under Iowa law, the workers’ compensation commissioner may designate […]

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Iowa, when an employer furnishes satisfactory proof to the insurance commissioner of the employer’s solvency and financial ability to pay the compensation and benefits as by law provided and […]

Fredericksburg, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Virginia law covers two scenarios in which attorney's fees are accounted for in a workers' compensation case: 1) where the parties agree to a fee; and 2) where they don't. The […]

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Iowa, to get experts' reports into evidence, a workers' compensation claimant must certify those experts as experts within statutorily defined timeframes. Because a worker did not do so in […]

Salt Lake City, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How qualified do doctors have to be to make their medical opinion stand up in a workers' compensation proceeding in Utah? According to the court in Nucor and Ace […]

Eugene, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To determine medically stationary status in Oregon, state statutes spell out what must be present. The following breaks down the requirements. In Oregon, a worker is medically stationary in the following […]