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.

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

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.

Trenton Targets Workers' Compensation

Pending New Jersey Legislation and What It Means for Injured Workers

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.

When the Workplace Overheats

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

Phones Off, Court On

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

Ebola: A Global Workers' Peril

A deadly new chapter in the decades-long struggle against Ebola has arrived. On May 16, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), its highest level of alarm, as the Bundibugyo virus (BVD) rapidly spread across northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and crossed the border into Uganda. With no approved vaccine and no targeted therapeutics, this rapidly spreading, often fatal hemorrhagic fever poses an urgent, underappreciated threat to workers around the globe, particularly those in healthcare settings.

Invisible Wounds, Visible Costs

The ILO’s 2026 SafeDay Report and What It Means for Workers’ Compensation

SSDI in Freefall

The Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade. New data from SSA's Office of the Chief Actuary reveal a steep and sustained decline in disabled-worker beneficiary rolls, a trend with profound consequences not only for disabled workers but also for the workers' compensation system that frequently intersects with SSDI benefits.

Flames That Forged Justice

 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Birth of American Labor Rights

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

Deadly factory fire again underlines importance of Bangladesh Accord

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

NJ Workers' Compensation: Major Changes Ahead

NJ Workers' Compensation-related bills introduced January 13, 2026 - Currently in committee review