Badges Don't Make Employees

Sanger v. Next Level Business Services — A Cautionary Tale for Gig-Economy Workers

Flames That Forged Justice

 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Birth of American Labor Rights

The Hidden Cost of the Perfect Countertop

When Beauty Becomes a Death Sentence for Workers

Undocumented Workers Win Pay Case

Lopez v. Marmic LLC is a landmark New Jersey Supreme Court decision handed down on March 19, 2026, and it sends a clear message to employers: hiring someone without work authorization does not give you a free pass to skip paying them.

Workplace Disease & Household Liability

A landmark California Supreme Court ruling in 2023 reversed earlier lower-court decisions and shielded employers from "take-home" COVID-19 liability — but the legal landscape for occupational disease exposure to household members remains complex and evolving. Here is what workers' compensation practitioners, employers, and injured workers need to know.

Safety Rules Have Consequences

A NJ Employee's Workers' Compensation Retaliation Claim Meets Summary Judgment

$7M Settlement Changes Everything

NJ's Landmark Workers' Comp Victory for 1,000+ Delivery Drivers

Occupational Hearing Loss: Still a Loud Problem

Workplace hearing loss has been called one of the most prevalent — and preventable — occupational health crises in the United States. Despite decades of federal regulation, improved hearing protection technology, and increased employer awareness, the numbers remain staggering. 

Cashed Check, Lost Lien Rights

What happens when a workers' compensation insurer agrees to accept a negotiated payment on its statutory lien — cashes the check — and then tries to walk back that agreement at the conclusion of the workers' compensation case? 

Dying at Work — Who's Counting?

Workplace fatality data, political interference, and the workers left behind.

"Four Days Was Enough"

How Filing the Wrong Answer Cost a Law Firm Its Entire Case

Deadly factory fire again underlines importance of Bangladesh Accord

Updated Analysis: Factory Fires, Worker Safety, and the Workers' Compensation Fallout

Glyphosate: Workers at Risk

The collision of a presidential executive order, a $7.25 billion proposed settlement, and decades of occupational health research has placed glyphosate-based herbicides at the center of one of the most consequential legal and workplace safety debates in American history. For employers, insurers, and the millions of workers who handle these chemicals daily, the stakes have never been higher.

Your Data Is for Sale

How Data Brokers Target Injured Workers and Threaten Your Workers' Compensation Claim

Roundup Justice: Workers Negotiate a Settlement

Monsanto's Landmark Roundup Settlement — What It Means for Workers and Their Families - $7.25 Billion Dollars

Eat Well, Claim Less

This is an updated and expanded edition of a 2014 post on diet and workplace health, revised with current research and data.

Construction Site Falls: Who Pays?

When Donald Hoiland stepped on a fist-sized rock at a Jersey City construction site in November 2017, he couldn't have known his injury would spawn three consolidated appeals that would clarify critical questions about contractor liability, indemnification, and workers' compensation protections in New Jersey.

Hidden Hazards at Work

The chemicals you work with every day might be poisoning you—and their identities are legally hidden. Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), thousands of industrial chemicals remain shrouded in confidentiality, making it nearly impossible for workers to know what they're being exposed to and extremely difficult to prove workers' compensation claims when illness strikes.

Gelman on Workers' Compensation Law 2026 Update Now Available

Jon Gelman's newly revised and updated treatise on Workers' Compensation Law 2026 has been published by Thomson Reuters of Eagan, MN. This marks the 40th annual supplement to the New Jersey Practice Series on Workers' Compensation Law. The treatise is the most comprehensive, research-integrated work, on Workers' Compensation law, and is fully integrated with Westlaw.

CMS Penalties Hit Workers' Compensation

Workers' Compensation - Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance