What happens when one injury causes another injury? What if you hurt one side of your body and then something goes wrong on the other side? And what the heck is a “compensable consequence?” We all know what is meant when someone tells us that they have injured their left leg and they are “favoring…
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The injured worker’s law team at Abrams Landau, Ltd. received a winning decision this month from the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (VWC) for a senior HVAC technician with a prior, serious workplace back injury. The client was alleging an injury by accident to his lower back. The defendants (his employer and his employer’s insurance company)…
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Why 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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With a court date looming for an ABRAMS LANDAU client who contracted C-Difficile while working in the maintenance department of a Northern Virginia retirement facility, attorney Doug Landau was intrigued by an article in a recent issue of VIRGINIA BUSINESS. Titled, “Study shows effect of copper infused products,” it examined the results of the world’s…
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If you’ve ever had physical therapy (PT) following an injury or accident, then you know it can be quite helpful in getting you back on your feet again. Virginia workers’ comp and injury lawyer Doug Landau knows this first hand. Not only has Landau himself undergone physical therapy to recover from sports and other injuries,…
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