# Jon L Gelman Jon L Gelman Page: Feed: --- ## [Libby Care Dies Quietly](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/libby-care-dies-quietly) _2026-08-16 · Jon L Gelman_ The federal model for occupational disease care collapsed in Montana. Workers’ compensation inherits the wreckage. ## [Credibility Beats Credentials](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/credibility-beats-credentials) _2026-08-15 · Jon L Gelman_ 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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/coverage-without-employment) _2026-08-14 · Jon L Gelman_ 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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/the-night-shift-penalty) _2026-08-11 · Jon L Gelman_ 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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/the-vanishing-injured-workers-compensation) _2026-08-03 · Jon L Gelman_ 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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/heats-uncounted-claims) _2026-07-29 · Jon L Gelman_ The federal heat standard slips to 2027, while the injuries heat actually causes keep arriving under other names. ## [Locking The Clock](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/locking-the-clock) _2026-07-23 · Jon L Gelman_ 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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/the-exclusion-that-wasnt) _2026-07-21 · Jon L Gelman_ Decided July 15, 2026, the unpublished per curiam opinion affirmed a Morris County judgment requiring Utica to indemnify the landlord for $1 million and to pay the full defense tab of $647,939.78.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](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/doubt-is-a-claim) _2026-07-21 · Jon L Gelman_ How vaccine hesitancy is quietly reshaping workers' compensation exposure for employers and carriers. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aUuQIa5b386U) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Sick Buildings, Compensable Claims](https://jongelman.substack.com/p/sick-buildings-compensable-claims) _2026-07-20 · Jon L Gelman_ New York's Legionnaires' outbreak signals rising occupational-disease exposure for New York and New Jersey employers.