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

Trenton Targets Workers' Compensation

Pending New Jersey Legislation and What It Means for Injured Workers

Asbestos Burden Persists Quietly

What a new national study reveals about mesothelioma, occupational exposure, and the future of workers' compensation claims.

When Inflation Hits Workers’ Compensation

How a renewed inflationary cycle is reshaping premiums, medical delivery, and disability benefits across the U.S. workers' compensation system.

Audit Trumps Oral Promise

 A New Jersey federal court enforces a written insurance policy over an alleged phone-call agreement, with a workers' compensation payroll rule at the heart of the dispute.

When the Workplace Overheats

Occupational Heat Exposure, Regulation, and Workers' Compensation in a Warming Climate

Cannabis Hiring, Now Actionable

New Jersey recognizes a private right of action under CREAMMA for workers refused employment over a positive cannabis test.

Phones Off, Court On

New Jersey reaffirms a near-total ban on recording workers' compensation proceedings.

Medicaid Cuts: Workers' Compensation Pays?

Trump Administration's Medicaid Work Requirements May Shift Enormous Costs to Employers and Workers' Compensation Insurers

Asbestos at the Fifth Circuit

How a TSCA Rule Argument Reaches Into Workers’ Compensation.

Discovery Delays Cost Defenses

An employer's dilatory discovery and silence regarding a motion to strike led the Appellate Division to affirm an order compelling knee-replacement surgery and to underscore that medical care cannot be delayed.