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.
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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
Popcorn Lung Rules Return
How NIOSH's diacetyl exposure limits still shape flavoring-industry lung-disease claims
Saturday, July 4, 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
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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