Long-form writing on workers compensation, OSHA enforcement, and the cases, statistics, and court decisions that shape how claims actually work. New articles publish on the first Monday of each month.
Cold-weather workplace injuries peak between December and March, with slip-and-fall on ice leading every year. Why the pattern repeats, and how these claims are litigated.
Workers comp is no-fault, but employer negligence still affects the claim — through heightened scrutiny, aggravation findings, and in a handful of states, intentional-tort exceptions.
When a non-employer causes a workplace injury, a separate civil lawsuit can recover damages workers comp does not pay. How third-party claims work alongside the workers comp case.
Fall protection leads OSHA's top-cited list for the fifteenth consecutive year. Breaking down the top 10 standards and why the same violations produce the same injuries every fiscal year.
Adhesive capsulitis is notoriously hard to prove as work-related. The medical picture, the evidentiary challenges, and what succeeds in frozen shoulder claims.
Intense supervision can paradoxically degrade workplace safety by increasing stress, discouraging hazard reporting, and pushing workers past safe pacing. The evidence and the claims it generates.
Before an injury happens, documentation habits decide whether a later claim succeeds. A practical pre-shift checklist that costs nothing and pays off repeatedly.
A growing body of research finds that a single serious workplace injury pushes roughly half of affected households into medical debt or bankruptcy within two years. What the numbers show.
Employer fraud vastly outweighs employee fraud in real enforcement data, but employee fraud dominates the narrative. Sorting the myth from the enforcement statistics.
Chronic pain is real, measurable, and compensable — but it remains the most contested category of workers comp claims. The medical evidence and the legal strategies that succeed.
New Jersey's 2026 workers comp rate adjustment, the factors driving it, and what it means for injured workers calculating future benefits and settlement values.