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.

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.