Landau Injury Law

The short answer is “yes,”  you can collect medpay if you are injured at a store, office building or home.  Medpay is short for “Medical Payments” insurance, which generally covers medical bills incurred, by someone legally on the property, who is hurt, up to the limit of the insurance.  So, if a client slips, falls, and cracks his skull because the Defendant Store had a leaky roof that dripped water for years and froze in the winter, the client could collect on the medpay insurance.  If the store had a $5,000 medpay policy, he could collect those funds, generally for bills that were reasonable, related to this accident and not the product of over treatment.  Usually such medpay (or “no fault” policies) require that payments be made only for medical bills incurred within a year of the accident.  This type of policy comes in very handy for clients who have no health insurance.  It is also great “Public Relations” for the store and saves them from many lawsuits.  The managers on duty typically run up and say, “It’s OK, we’ll pay for your medical care.”  They do not say, however, that there are monetary and time limits.  Private homes and officve buildings can also have “medpay coverage.”  So if you, or someone you know is injured due to a dangerous or defective building, store or home, please call us at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd.  We can investigate not only the liability claim to determine fault but there may also be medpay or other “no fault” type coverages available to help get you back on the road to recovery.

The Herndon, Virginia law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd., currently has pending dog attack cases involving children and adults in Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey. Doug Landau and the Trial Team were successful in 2007 in resolving cases for clients and families from Virginia, New Jersey and California. If you or someone you know has been the victim of an animal attack, please contact us at once. Delay in the investigation of these claims can be fatal to the case. On a recent “road trip” from Pennsylvania, Virginia Trial Lawyer Doug Landau took pictures and investigated several dog attack cases in the Middle Atlantic States.  [Shown here is the Hudson County Courthouse in New Jersey, where Doug Landau successfully advocates on behalf of clients attacked by dogs while in the course of their work for the Post Office and Police Department.]

While on the Virginia Tech campus to meet with past and present car crash, pedestrian knock down, workers compensation, premises liability (slip and fall) and injured athlete clients, Herndon/Reston area lawyer Doug Landau came across some very odd looking Police patrol vehicles. The TriathlonTrialLawyer met the Virginia Tech “Tricycle Police.” These stable vehicles enable the TechSecurity force to cover more ground than they could on foot, and have the added advantage of a higher sight line and not having to carry heavy equipment on their belts or backs. Fairfax County personal injury lawyer Doug Landau has successfully represented police officers and fire fighters who have been injured while running on the job. (more…)

While the plaintiff in McMurray v. Bryan won a verdict for horse bite that tore off her thumb in California, Herndon-Reston area injury lawyer Doug Landau believes that if the case had been tried in Virginia, the result would have been a Defense verdict ! 

The plaintiff was a 52-year-old woman who lost her thumb when an agitated horse bit it off.  She was petting the Appaloosa horse’s nose until she noticed it getting angry. She backed up a few feet and the horse charged at her.  The horse bit her hand raised its head and lifted her off the ground. The Plaintiff’s head then struck a tree branch before the horse tore the thumb from her hand and she fell to the ground.  Surgery was performed to put the finger back on her hand, but the thumb eventually died and now she has a prosthetic thumb.  The California jury found the Plaintiff 75% liable for her injuries, the land owner 15% liable and the horse owner 10% liable, which reduced her $324,000 award to about $81,000.  This is because California allows for the comparison of the fault of the parties.  Virginia does not allow such comparison, and the Plaintiff’s “Assumption of the Risk” and “Contributory Negligence” would have caused the result to have been a defense verdict according to multistate injury trial lawyer Doug Landau.  The ABRAMS LANDAU trial team notes that this is another example of why comparisons of cases from different jurisdictions are not always helpful.

Fredericksburg Virginia Radio station WFVA (1230 AM) will feature Herndon Injury Lawyer Doug Landau of ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. on its morning “Peoples Law School” program Monday, March 17th at 9:00 AM.  The affable Triathlon Trial Lawyer will answer questions from callers as well as from the host, fellow Virginia Trial Lawyer John Harris.   So, if you have any questions about all kinds of injury claims, workers compensation, dog attacks, occupational diseases, defective products, sports accidents, children’s cases, brain injury, Social Security Disability or other related topics, please call in !  The number is 540-371-5756.

In this case, which arose as the result of a four-year-old child being attacked and mauled by a dog at his day care operator’s home, the Abrams Landau trial team’s ability to function in a number of jurisdictions was put to the test !..
Recently voted again as on of Virginia and Washington, D.C.’s “Super Lawyers” Doug Landau visited with the entire family at their church in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Landau was able to combine this visit, in a setting that would be comforting to the family, (more…)

It’s every working parents’ nightmare:  After dropping off a small child at day care, a call comes telling you that your child has been attacked and bitten by a big dog.
Herndon head and brain injury lawyer Doug Landau was contacted by a family from Virginia Beach who received just such a call.
After the child’s mother dropped her four year old son and his twin brother off at a friend’s house to play while she went to work.  The friend operated a day care which was open and operating at the time.  This young mother, whose husband is a major, currently serving in Iraq, got a call about an hour later telling her that the Day Care Center’s owner’s dog had mauled her son.  The anguished and frightened mother took her son to the emergency room and where he received 6 staples in his head.  The dog was not vaccinated (more…)

The Postal Employee’s action for damages arose out of a dog attack that occurred as our client was in the course and scope of his employment for the U.S. Postal Service. Mr. Landau’s client was placing mail in the mailboxes, when he saw a woman approaching with a dog on a leash. It appeared that the woman wanted access to the mailboxes, where the mailman was working. He moved toward the street, to avoid the woman and her dog. At this point, the woman approached his direction. When the woman and the dog were approximately (5) five feet away, the dog, unprovoked in any way by this uniformed Postal Employee, lunged at his face.

Mr. Landau’s client raised his arm to protect his face. The dog bit the man’s arm, through his winter jacket. At the time, this hard working man did not realize that he been bitten. The woman apologized and left the scene. Later that day, and while still working his route, this postal worker felt pain and saw blood dripping from his arm. He took off his jacket and was surprised to find (more…)

When a mail carrier was attacked while delivering the mail in a Kearney New Jersey neighborhood, he had no idea that he was not the first, or even the second person attacked and bitten by this large dog. He was the third !

This injured mail carrier, like the police officer attacked by the dog on the very same street, also contacted Herndon, Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau of Abrams Landau, Ltd. to prosecute his personal injury claim against the Defendant dog owners and their Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Insurance Company. This Herndon law firm has experience helping people attacked and bitten by dogs throughout the East Coast. The trial team at Abrams Landau, Ltd. has successfully settled cases against the insurance company that issued the policy of insurance on the home where the dangerous dog is kept. In most cases, the insurance covering the owners of the dog (more…)

Experienced Herndon trial lawyer Doug Landau has been voted into “The Best Lawyers In America,” “Super Lawyers” and the highest rating available in the Martindale Hubbell directory of Lawyers in the United States. Despite these honors, there are simple, common sense actions that should be taken after a car wreck, dog bite, bike crash, trip and fall, animal attack, defective premises, or other personal injury causing event. The Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau recommends:

*Photographs should be taken as soon as possible.
*You should save the defective product or parts.
*Write down what happened: include names, addresses and phone numbers of the other people involved in the accident and all witnesses at the scene.
*Identify the vehicles involved or the injury causing product.
*Make a diagram of your location before, during and after the accident.
*Include measurements of such things as skidmarks, landmarks and warning signs.

*Preserve the evidence: do not wash bloody clothing, broken footwear or throw out a cracked bicycle helmut.  Label these things, put them in zip lock bags and give them to your lawyer.