A Dozen Years, No Hike

New Jersey’s proposed 2027 rate filing would extend the state’s run of workers’ compensation rate reductions to a twelfth straight year, even as the annual cut continues to shrink.

Two Endorsements, Two Traps

NJCRIB adopts NAFIA and OFAC sanctions endorsements for 2027, reshaping where claims are filed and paid.

The Fire That Built Comp

How a one-day gap in March 1911 split the old balance of power from the one that gives injured workers their claim today, and what the fight over that balance means for workers' compensation practice going forward.

No Shoulder to Lean On

Appellate Division bars LAD plaintiff from suing for a workers' compensation-paid shoulder injury after a retaliatory firing.

The Ban Arrives Late

Cal/OSHA has released draft regulatory text that would prohibit the manufacture and fabrication of artificial stone containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica. The product may disappear from California shops. The workers’ compensation claims will not.

Your Body Becomes Evidence

New Jersey's S4075 would regulate AI workplace surveillance and quietly reshape proof in every workers ' compensation claim.

The Dust Never Settled

New York City's newly released 9/11 records show that asbestos lingered in Lower Manhattan for months while officials weighed their own liability. Twenty-five years later, the latency clock for asbestos-related cancer is only now reaching its peak.