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Saturday, July 18, 2026

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.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Smoke Signals for Compensation

Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Northeast Air Pollution, and the Coming Wave of Occupational Exposure Claims

When The Show Injures You

A prop struck a Broadway performer mid-show this month. Behind the viral bruise photos lies a question every injured New Jersey worker, famous or not, faces: who pays, and how?

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

EPA's Asbestos Rule Awaits Data

How EPA's Request for Information on Legacy Asbestos Fits Into the Regulatory and Workers' Compensation Picture