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.

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

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

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.

Chevron Gone, Benefits Threatened

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

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 the Workplace Overheats

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

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.

Medicaid Care Workers: Not Jointly Employed

 In a significant ruling for the home care and Medicaid services industry, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed that a financial management services vendor does not qualify as a joint employer of home care workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The decision in Talarico v. Public Partnerships LLC, decided May 19, 2026, carries important implications for workers' compensation coverage, overtime liability, and the rights of workers who are exposed to occupational hazards, including asbestos, in home health settings.

Medical Records Fees Reshape Claims

The cost of obtaining medical records in New Jersey workers’ compensation cases has been significantly restructured. Senate Bill 2253—signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy as P.L. 2022, c. 114, effective September 22, 2022—slashed the permissible fees that hospitals and licensed health care professionals may charge for copies of medical and billing records. Three years on, a January 5, 2026, regulatory amendment to N.J.A.C. 8:43G-15.3 has updated hospital licensing standards to bring administrative rules into full alignment with the statute, closing a gap that had persisted since 2011.