Libby Care Dies Quietly
The federal model for occupational disease care collapsed in Montana. Workers’ compensation inherits the wreckage.
Jon L Gelman
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Credibility Beats Credentials
A Costco worker quit, wrote “personal reasons” on the form, and still collected temporary disability benefits. The Appellate Division affirmed on August 12, 2026.
Coverage Without Employment
How states are severing injury benefits from employee status, and what that means for claims. Updating and superseding "Reshaping Workers' Compensation for the Sharing Economy" (July 29, 2015)
The Night Shift Penalty
New cohort data ties night work and chronic insomnia to sharply higher long-COVID risk, and it hands both sides of the workers’ compensation bar a fresh causation fight.
The Vanishing Injured Workers' Compensation Bar
Benefit restrictions and capped contingency fees have made workers' compensation practice uneconomic in a growing number of states, and when the lawyers go, the disputes go with them.
Heat's Uncounted Claims
The federal heat standard slips to 2027, while the injuries heat actually causes keep arriving under other names.
Locking The Clock
Congress has moved to end seasonal time changes. The direction it chooses will reshape workplace injury patterns and the compensability disputes that follow.
The Exclusion That Wasn't
Decided July 15, 2026, the unpublished per curiam opinion affirmed a Morris County judgment requiring Utica to indemnify the landlord for $1 million and to pay the full defense tab of $647,939.78.
Doubt Is a Claim
How vaccine hesitancy is quietly reshaping workers' compensation exposure for employers and carriers.
Sick Buildings, Compensable Claims
New York's Legionnaires' outbreak signals rising occupational-disease exposure for New York and New Jersey employers.