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Jon L Gelman

@jongelman.bsky.social
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Lawyer, Author @westlaw Website: www.gelmans.com Blogger bit.ly/ljsqgJ #WorkComp SSRN Papers: tinyurl.com/543pfhwn

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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NJ AFL-CIO Puts Its Weight Behind S4075, the FAIR Act, and Injured Workers Should Pay Attention | Not Fired by a Robot workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/not-... #WorkersCompensation #ArtificialIntelligence #FAIRAct #NJAFLCIO #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceSurveillance #AIRegulation #LaborLaw
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trenton Tackles AI in the Workplace as AFL-CIO Launches FAIR Act Campaign - Insider NJ www.insidernj.com/trenton-tack... S4075 #WorkplaceAI #AFLCIO #WorkersCompensation
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Trenton Tackles AI in the Workplace as AFL-CIO Launches FAIR Act Campaign - Insider NJ
TRENTON – New Jersey’s capital city thrives on gossip, nonsense, self-congratulations, and self-aggrandizement. So how the hell is the political establishment here going to grapple effectively with…
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NJCRIB adopts NAFIA and OFAC sanctions endorsements for 2027, reshaping where claims are filed and paid. workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-... #WorkersCompensation #NJCRIB #NewJersey #WorkersComp #NAFIA #LongshoreAct #LHWCA #OFAC #Sanctions #InsuranceRegulation #EmployersLiability
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How a one-day gap in March 1911 split the old balance of power from the one that gives injured workers their claim today, and what the fight over that balance means for workers' compensation practice going forward. workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... #WorkersComp #WorkersCompensation
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Appellate Division bars LAD plaintiff from suing for a workers' compensation-paid shoulder injury after a retaliatory firing. workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-s... #WorkersCompensation #WorkersComp #NewJersey #EmploymentLaw #NJLAD #Retaliation #ExclusiveRemedy #Section40
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cal/OSHA has released draft regulatory text that would prohibit the manufacture and fabrication of artificial stone containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica. | The Ban Arrives Late workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Jersey's S4075 would regulate AI workplace surveillance and quietly reshape proof in every workers ' compensation claim. | Your Body Becomes Evidence workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/your... #WorkersCompensation #WorkplaceSurveillance #ArtificialIntelligence #NewJerseyLaw
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New York City's newly released 9/11 records show that asbestos lingered in Lower Manhattan for months while officials weighed their own liability. | The Dust Never Settled workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... #WorkersCompensation #WorkersComp #September11 #911Health #WTCHealthProgram
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ICE Restricted from Entering Compensation Court in NJ | Court Upholds NJ's ICE Firewall workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/cour... #WorkersCompensation #ImmigrationLaw #SupremacyClause #Anticommandeering #NewJerseyLaw #EmploymentLaw #ICE #FederalPreemption #LaborLaw #NJLegal #WCLaw
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Southern District of New York recognizes the Quebec bar date for asbestos claims against Asbestos Corporation Limited. Workers' comp carriers, self-insured employers, and lienholders have until September 10, 2026 Liens Race the Clock workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/work...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Neural monitoring at work, the data employers are quietly accumulating, and what it will do to compensation claims. | Your Brain Clocks In workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/09/your... #WorkersCompensation #Neurotechnology #NeuralData #WorkplacePrivacy #CognitiveLiberty #EmployeeMonitoring
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Record federal borrowing and a 5.2 percent long bond are quietly repricing reserves, settlements, and self-insurance security. | The Bond Market Adjusts Claims workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New Jersey’s 2027 Workers’ Compensation Benefit Rates and What They Do to Claims Higher Ceiling, Frozen Floor workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/high...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The economist who chaired the Nixon Commission set a standard the states still have not met. | John Burton's Unfinished Blueprint workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/john...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A leased laundry aide died of COVID-19 contracted during a nursing home outbreak. His estate collected a workers’ compensation award, and that was the end of the line. | Twin Shields Bar COVID Claim workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/twin... #WorkersCompensation #WorkersComp #NJLaw
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has refused to disturb the Asbestos Corporation Limited claims regime. For American workers’ compensation practitioners, carriers, and self-insured employers, the September 10, 2026 bar date is nowonly date that matters. Out workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/asbe....
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The federal model for occupational disease care collapsed in Montana. Workers’ compensation inherits the wreckage. | Libby Care Dies Quietly workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/libb...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A Costco worker quit, wrote “personal reasons” on the form, and still collected temporary disability benefits. | Credibility Beats Credentials workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/cred... #WorkersCompensation #WorkersComp
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Coverage Without Employment workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/cove... #WorkersCompensation #GigEconomy #WorkerClassification #IndependentContractor #ABCTest #PortableBenefits #EmploymentLaw #RiskManagement #InsuranceClaims #NewJerseyLaw #LaborLaw #HR #Misclassification #WorkplaceInjury
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New cohort data ties night work and chronic insomnia to sharply higher long-COVID risk - The Night Shift Penalty workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-... #WorkersCompensation #WorkersComp #OccupationalDisease #LongCOVID #ShiftWork #NightShift #OccupationalHealth #WorkplaceSafety
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Vanishing Injured Workers' Compensation Bar workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-... #workerscompensation
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Heat's Uncounted Claims workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/heat...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A record Cyclospora year turns cafeteria lunches and catered shifts into contested workers’ compensation claims.| Parasite In The Payroll workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/para...
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Congress has moved to end seasonal time changes. The direction it chooses will reshape workplace injury patterns, and the compensability disputes that follow. - Locking The Clock workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/lock... #WorkersCompensation #WorkplaceSafety #DaylightSavingTime
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Exclusion That Wasn't workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
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The Exclusion That Wasn't
Does the tenant's CGL carrier owe the landlord a defense and indemnity, or do the policy's employee and workers' compensation exclusions
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Northeast Air Pollution, and the Coming Wave of Occupational Exposure Claims workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/smok... #WorkersCompensation #WildfireSmoke #OccupationalDisease #WorkplaceSafety #NJLaw
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Smoke Signals for Compensation
Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Northeast Air Pollution, and the Coming Wave of Occupational Exposure Claims
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Injured while working a show? Learn your rights and next steps: workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/when... #WorkersCompensation #NJWorkersComp #WorkplaceSafety #Laidlow #NewJerseyLaw #InjuredWorkers #EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Popcorn Lung Rules Return workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/07/popc... #WorkersCompensation #OccupationalHealth #DiacetylExposure #PopcornLung #WorkplaceSafety #FoodManufacturing #OccupationalDisease #LungDisease #WorkersRights #NJLaw #EmploymentLaw #IndustrialHygiene
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
America at 250: A Nation Still Building a Safer Workplace buff.ly/TTExq1u
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
When the workplace heats up — safety tips and guidance: workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/06/when.... #WorkersCompensation #WorkplaceSafety #OSHA #HeatIllness #OccupationalHealth #ExtremeHeat #EmployerLiability #NJLaw #ConstructionSafety #HRCompliance #HeatStress #LaborLaw
When the workplace heats up — safety tips and guidance: https://workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2026/06/when-workplace-overheats_01361760.html. #WorkersCompensation #WorkplaceSafety #OSHA #HeatIllness #OccupationalHealth #ExtremeHeat #EmployerLiability #NJLaw #ConstructionSafety #HRCompliance #HeatStress #LaborLaw
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Algorithm Denied It buff.ly/ZCSgtO5
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The Algorithm Denied It
Artificial Intelligence, Claims Adjudication, and the Future of Due Process
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Roundup Shields, Workers Lose buff.ly/6JD79C7
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Roundup Shields, Workers Lose
Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, 609 U. S. ___ (2026): the Supreme Court holds that FIFRA expressly preempts a state failure-to-warn claim.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Aggravation Counts in New Jersey buff.ly/IEhW9ld
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Aggravation Counts in New Jersey
How a work injury to an arthritic knee can be fully compensable, even when the worker had a pre-existing degenerative condition.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Pay On Time, Or Pay More buff.ly/fX8ak8n
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Pay On Time, Or Pay More
A New Jersey appellate court affirms 25 percent sanctions against an employer whose insurer missed the sixty-day deadline to pay a workers' compensati
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Chevron Gone, Benefits Threatened buff.ly/aAAtAPi
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Chevron Gone, Benefits Threatened
Two Years After Loper Bright: Workers' Compensation, the Administrative State, and a Coming Reckoning Over Social Security
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Clock Runs Out buff.ly/YtYaNLy
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The Clock Runs Out
What the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report Means for Injured and Retired Workers
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Narrated by Tom Perez buff.ly/1m069DH
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Narrated by Tom Perez
Tom Perez is a civil rights attorney, former Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and served as U.S. Labor Secretary under President Barack Obama. Perez tells us about the tragic 1911 Triangle…
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Trenton Targets Workers' Compensation buff.ly/sMZoOG2
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Trenton Targets Workers' Compensation
Pending New Jersey Legislation and What It Means for Injured Workers
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Asbestos Burden Persists Quietly buff.ly/s4fJ0Fl
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Asbestos Burden Persists Quietly
What a new national study reveals about mesothelioma, occupational exposure, and the future of workers' compensation claims.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
When Inflation Hits Workers’ Compensation buff.ly/dzYtEzm
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When Inflation Hits Workers’ Compensation
How a renewed inflationary cycle is reshaping premiums, medical delivery, and disability benefits across the U.S. workers' compensation system.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Audit Trumps Oral Promise buff.ly/OnIY0fn
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Audit Trumps Oral Promise
A New Jersey federal court enforces a written insurance policy over an alleged phone-call agreement.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
When the Workplace Overheats buff.ly/nNsyxgd
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When the Workplace Overheats
Occupational Heat Exposure, Regulation, and Workers' Compensation in a Warming Climate
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Cannabis Hiring, Now Actionable buff.ly/C4YEDUV
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Cannabis Hiring, Now Actionable
New Jersey recognizes a private right of action under CREAMMA for workers refused employment over a positive cannabis test.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Phones Off, Court On buff.ly/vIpdWyS
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Phones Off, Court On
New Jersey reaffirms a near-total ban on recording workers' compensation proceedings.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Medicaid Cuts: Workers' Compensation Pays? buff.ly/FPOcI6Y
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Medicaid Cuts: Workers' Compensation Pays?
rump Administration's Medicaid Work Requirements May Shift Enormous Costs to Employers and Workers' Compensation Insurers
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Asbestos at the Fifth Circuit buff.ly/4rNfNYs
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Asbestos at the Fifth Circuit
ow a TSCA Rule Argument Reaches Into Workers’ Compensation.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Discovery Delays Cost Defenses buff.ly/urHE3kv
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Discovery Delays Cost Defenses
An employer's dilatory discovery and silence regarding a motion to strike led the Appellate Division to affirm an order compelling treatment.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Medicaid Care Workers: Not Jointly Employed buff.ly/oLawjxf
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Medicaid Care Workers: Not Jointly Employed
Third Circuit affirmed that a financial management services vendor does not qualify as a joint employer of home care workers under the FLSA.
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Jon L Gelman @jongelman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Medical Records Fees Reshape Claims workers-compensation.blogspot.com/2022/10/new-...
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Medical Records Fees Reshape Claims
The cost of obtaining medical records in New Jersey workers’ compensation cases has been significantly restructured.
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