The Exclusion That Wasn't

A landlord's tenant leases warehouse space, promises to name the landlord as an additional insured, and buys a commercial general liability policy to do it. The tenant's own employee is then badly hurt on the premises and sues the landlord. Does the tenant's CGL carrier owe the landlord a defense and indemnity, or do the policy's employee and workers' compensation exclusions wipe out coverage? In SL 10 Park Place, LLC v. Utica National Insurance Group, the Appellate Division answered squarely for the additional insured, and in doing so drew a bright line that every workers' compensation practitioner should understand.

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.

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?

Popcorn Lung Rules Return

How NIOSH's diacetyl exposure limits still shape flavoring-industry lung-disease claims

America at 250: A Nation Still Building a Safer Workplace

250 YEARS OF AMERICAN WORK

EPA's Asbestos Rule Awaits Data

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