Mass Layoffs Hit New Jersey

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act continues to serve as an early warning system for mass layoffs across New Jersey, and the 2025 data reveals troubling trends that demand attention from policymakers, business leaders, and workers alike.

Workers' Compensation Bar Prevails

The New Jersey Appellate Division affirms the exclusivity of workers' compensation in a workplace-fall case.

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Podcast: Chevron Falls: Workers' Compensation Survives

This podcast reviews the workers' compensation landscape one year after the US Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision, which struck down the Chevron defense.

New Jersey's Workplace Safety Wins

A data-driven examination of seven years of workers' compensation trends reveals encouraging progress—and work still needs to be done.

Chevron Falls: Workers' Compensation Survives

A year ago, we examined how the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo might reshape the workers' compensation landscape, particularly regarding Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) agreements and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) administration of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act. Now, with twelve months of hindsight, we can assess what has actually transpired—and what remains uncertain.

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.