Parasite In The Payroll

A record Cyclospora year turns cafeteria lunches and catered shifts into contested workers’ compensation claims.

Locking The Clock

Congress has moved to end seasonal time changes. The direction it chooses will reshape workplace injury patterns and the compensability disputes that follow.

Doubt Is a Claim

How vaccine hesitancy is quietly reshaping workers' compensation exposure for employers and carriers.

Sick Buildings, Compensable Claims

New York's Legionnaires' outbreak signals rising occupational-disease exposure for New York and New Jersey employers.

The Exclusion That Wasn't

A landlord's tenant leases warehouse space, promises to name the landlord as an additional insured, and buys a commercial general liability policy to do it. The tenant's own employee is then badly hurt on the premises and sues the landlord. Does the tenant's CGL carrier owe the landlord a defense and indemnity, or do the policy's employee and workers' compensation exclusions wipe out coverage? In SL 10 Park Place, LLC v. Utica National Insurance Group, the Appellate Division answered squarely for the additional insured, and in doing so drew a bright line that every workers' compensation practitioner should understand.

Long COVID's Dopamine Trail

For years, workers disabled by long COVID have described brain fog, memory loss, apathy, and slowed thinking that employers and carriers dismissed as subjective or unrelated to the job. A new study published in eBioMedicine (a Lancet-family journal) supplies something these claims have historically lacked: an objective, measurable brain signature of the injury. For the workers' compensation bar, that shift from symptom description to biological proof is the story.

Smoke Signals for Compensation

Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Northeast Air Pollution, and the Coming Wave of Occupational Exposure Claims