There are three main times insurance companies can stop paying you workers' compensation indemnity benefits if you are receiving a weekly check. The first is if the authorized treating physician releases you back to normal duty work. This is not light-duty work, or work with any restrictions – this is regular duty work. At that point in time, the insurance company must file a WC-2 suspending benefits. If you do not receive a WC-2 form in the mail, please contact your attorney right away because your benefits have been illegally stopped. The second reason the insurance carrier can stop paying you workers' compensation benefits is if you are offered light-duty work, and on your own, you return to that light-duty work, and you are making as much -- or more -- than you were making before you were injured. The third reason an insurance company can stop paying you workers' compensation benefits is if a company offers you light-duty work pursuant to the restrictions placed upon you by the authorized treating physician and they fill out form WC240. The first step on the WC240 form is they must get a doctor to sign off on a specific job duty; subsequent to that, they must send you notice of the job and provide you 10 days to report to work. If you report to work during this time, they are able to suspend benefits. If you refuse to return to work and the doctor has not done anything to revoke the WC240, then benefits can properly be suspended.