The Night Shift Penalty

New cohort data ties night work and chronic insomnia to sharply higher long-COVID risk, and it hands both sides of the workers’ compensation bar a fresh causation fight.

The Vanishing Injured Workers' Compensation Bar

Benefit restrictions and capped contingency fees have made workers' compensation practice uneconomic in a growing number of states, and when the lawyers go, the disputes go with them.

Heat's Uncounted Claims

The federal heat standard slips to 2027, while the injuries heat actually causes keep arriving under other names.

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.