For many injured employees who do not have prior experience with the workers' compensation claims process, the challenge of decoding the arcane language, acronyms, and abbreviations you are likely to encounter in the paperwork related to your case may seem like a foreign language. Indeed, one of the chief complaints that critics have lodged against state workers' compensation programs is that they are almost too complex for laypeople to navigate without the help of a legal expert. One example of this problem is the statutes that define and describe workers' compensation laws in each state, as well as the codes that are used to refer to different types of injuries, illnesses, and claims actions. Today, most states offer online access to their workers' compensation statutes, and some offer easy-to-understand glossaries of workers' compensation codes that are likely to be found in the paperwork associated with your claim. If you have specific questions, contact a representative of the insurer or your state's workers' compensation bureau.