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.

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

When The Show Injures You

A prop struck a Broadway performer mid-show this month. Behind the viral bruise photos lies a question every injured New Jersey worker, famous or not, faces: who pays, and how?

Popcorn Lung Rules Return

How NIOSH's diacetyl exposure limits still shape flavoring-industry lung-disease claims

America at 250: A Nation Still Building a Safer Workplace

250 YEARS OF AMERICAN WORK

EPA's Asbestos Rule Awaits Data

How EPA's Request for Information on Legacy Asbestos Fits Into the Regulatory and Workers' Compensation Picture

When the Workplace Overheats

Record Heat, Worker Safety, and the Compensation Question

The Algorithm Denied It

Artificial Intelligence, Claims Adjudication, and the Future of Due Process

Roundup Shields, Workers Lose

Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, 609 U. S. ___ (2026): the Supreme Court holds that FIFRA expressly preempts a state failure-to-warn claim, and the ripple reaches workers' compensation.

Aggravation Counts in New Jersey

How a work injury to an arthritic knee can be fully compensable, even when the worker had a pre-existing degenerative condition.

Pay On Time, Or Pay More

A New Jersey appellate court affirms 25 percent sanctions against an employer whose insurer missed the sixty-day deadline to pay a workers' compensation award by a single day.

Chevron Gone, Benefits Threatened

Two Years After Loper Bright: Workers' Compensation, the Administrative State, and a Coming Reckoning Over Social Security

The Clock Runs Out

What the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report Means for Injured and Retired Workers