Under the sign for the hamburger venue Smashburger at Reagan National Airport (DCA), airport injury attorney Doug Landau observed a number of: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) cars, airline luggage tugs, fuel trucks, passenger transport mini buses, ramp vehicles and electric maintenance Cushman carts zipping around the “Air Operations Area” (AOA). The Air Operations Area…
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Yesterday we started out discussion on help for international airline injury cases, today we continue to help answer your questions. Click here to read part 1 of this blog post on our Airport Injury Lawyer blog. WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF LIABILITY UNDER THE MONTREAL CONVENTION? Once jurisdiction under the Montreal Convention is proven, then…
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There’s a treaty for injured international air travelers. Injuries and accidents during an international flight occur, despite the airlines best efforts regarding safety and first aid training. When a passenger on a flight is injured, their right to compensation will probably be governed by an international treaty. The treaty between countries that international airline injuries…
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After a multiyear slide in passengers, Dulles International Airport (IAD) bounced back with a gradual increase in passengers year after year. According to a recent Washington Post article, for the first time since 2014, more travelers flew through Dulles than Reagan National Airport (DCA) last year. In 2018, 24.1 million passengers came through Dulles—a 5.1…
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If you’re planning on flying anytime soon and you wanted to bring your Macbook with you, you’ll want to keep reading. In June 2019, Apple issued a voluntary recall of a number of 15-inch Macbook Pro laptops due to concerns over the lithium ion battery and the potential to catch fire. In August 2019, the…
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In 2018, there were over 4.3 billion passengers worldwide on commercial airlines and over 100,000 flights per day. That’s a lot of people in the air trusting airlines to get them safely from one place to another! Airlines are responsible for ensuring that passengers are safe from preventable injuries and they may be at least…
Continue readingWhy do we give our clients homework? Because everyone at Abrams Landau, Ltd. likes to be AHEAD of deadlines—and not playing “catch-up”—we will give our clients’ homework in nearly every single injury, workers’ comp and disability case. We have found that rather than mailing, faxing or sending questions to doctors electronically, if the client hand…
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Recently, we received a call from a woman who had fallen in a grocery store pharmacy and injured her lower back. We got the call for help nine years after the fall! The Statute of Limitations, which is the legal time limit for her kind of case, is two years. In other words, when people…
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The legal rights of injured airline passengers here in the United States are usually determined by the law of the state where the event happened. For those traveling internationally, even if they are injured during the domestic leg of the trip, there may be additional laws that apply to their case. Airport injury lawyer Doug…
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Upon late arrival at a local airport, a passenger was injured while walking through a poorly lit airport corridor. The passenger/traveler fell, shattering his elbow, requiring EMS assistance and surgical repair. In order to prevail in a case against the airport authority or their contractors, we must have the ability to prove the defendant’s negligence.…
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