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.

Medicaid Cuts: Workers' Compensation Pays?

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

Workplace Stress Kills Workers

The International Labour Organization's landmark 2026 Global Report, The Psychosocial Working Environment: Global Developments and Pathways for Action, delivers a sober verdict: workplace stress is not merely an inconvenience; it is a global killer. For workers' compensation practitioners in New Jersey and across the United States, this report carries profound implications. It quantifies what many attorneys and physicians have long argued: that the psychosocial conditions of work — job strain, overwork, harassment, and insecurity — are primary drivers of cardiovascular disease, mental health disorders, and even suicide.

The ILO's new global estimates, published here for the first time, are staggering in scope and sobering in implication. They demand a reevaluation of how workers' compensation law responds to stress-induced illness and death in the workplace.

NJ Workers’ Compensation: Profit Surge

An Analysis of Premiums, Profitability, and Trends from the NJCRIB 2025 Annual Report

SIF, PEOs, and Ethics

On May 13, 2026, the New Jersey workers' compensation bar gathered for the annual May Day Seminar, a three-hour intensive legal education covering some of the most pressing and financially consequential issues in the practice. The topics: the Second Injury Fund (SIF) credit debate, the chaos of PEO coverage litigation, and the ethics landmines embedded in the insurer/employer/attorney triangle. What follows is a practitioner's guide to the issues presented, the law as it now stands, and what you need to do about it.

Virus on Board: Are We Ready?

Hantavirus, the Andes Strain, and the Workers' Compensation System's Preparedness for Person-to-Person Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Flames That Forged Justice

 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Birth of American Labor Rights

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.

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.

AIG Remains in Workers' Compensation

The 2012 Prediction That Didn't Come True

NJ's Fee Schedule Gap

New Jersey's Medical Billing Problem: When "Reasonable and Customary" Costs You a Fortune

Health Reimbursement Rules Impact Claims

How IRS Coverage Mandates Affect Workers' Compensation Costs in 2026.

Labor's Workplace Safety Impact

While union membership hit a historic low of 9.9% in 2024—down from 20.1% in 1983—organized labor's influence on workers' compensation and workplace safety remains surprisingly powerful. This seeming contradiction reveals a critical truth: unions punch above their weight in protecting injured workers and preventing workplace injuries.

White House Asbestos Transparency

ADAO Fights for Transparency on East Wing Demolition Hazards

Healthcare Crisis Threatens Workers' Compensation

The American healthcare system is approaching a breaking point that will have profound implications for employers and workers' compensation insurers. As healthcare costs spiral out of control and insurance becomes increasingly unaffordable, a growing number of workers are entering the workplace with untreated medical conditions that will significantly amplify the severity and cost of work-related injuries.

Workers' Compensation Breakdown

Professor Michael C. Duff's law review article "Reverberations of Magna Carta – Work Injuries, Inkblots, and Restitution" presents a scathing indictment of America's workers' compensation system. His central argument: workers have been "unconstitutionally undercompensated" for over a century, creating what amounts to a constitutional crisis hiding in plain sight.

NJ Workers' Compensation: Broken Medical Promises

Like the broader US system, workers' compensation in New Jersey promises to protect employees injured on the job by ensuring timely and adequate medical care. However, this promise often feels broken when navigating the system's realities, particularly concerning medical benefits. Injured workers frequently encounter significant hurdles, especially when seeking medical treatment for both routine conditions and those requiring immediate attention.

Legal Help Boosts Workers' Compensation Benefits

A recent study about the impact of legal representation on workers' compensation benefits found that having an attorney representing an injured worker increases benefits. 

NJ Mandates Access to Periodic Cancer Screenings for Firefighters

NJ Governor Murphy signed legislation that mandates access to periodic cancer screening examinations for firefighters who are not enrolled in the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP), but who are eligible for enrollment in the SHBP by public employment.

OSHA: America Airlines Fined for Retaliating Against Worker Who Reported Hazardous Fumes in Cabin

Federal safety and health investigators have determined that one of the nation's largest airlines retaliated against flight attendants who reported worker illnesses caused by toxic fumes entering aircraft cabins.