Airport injury lawyer Doug Landau is used to traveling. After all, since he is licensed to practice law up and down the East Coast, he often travels to meet with clients or try cases for injured airline employees who live, work, or have been injured in a state other than Landau’s home state of Virginia.…
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Airline attendant work is becoming increasingly more dangerous. This is because carry-on baggage is getting heavier as passengers try to avoid checked luggage fees. Plus, flight attendants are called upon to do more and more maintenance and custodial work on the aircraft, and the American population is becoming older and more obese. Injuries on the…
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Can a Dulles Toll Road worker get compensation if she gets lost on the job? The short answer is yes, especially if she is represented by DC area airport injury lawyer Doug Landau. In a case just decided this month by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, benefits were awarded Mr. Landau’s client who sustained…
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When a construction worker is injured while working at Dulles International or Reagan National Airport, questions arise as to who can investigate, and who is ultimately responsible to pay for the losses. Who Can Investigate Airport Construction Accidents? In construction site accidents away from these airports, the local police, buildings inspector, OSHA (Occupational Safety and…
Continue readingWhich Dulles Airport area middle school sent a team of 8th graders to compete in the 2015 We the People competition on Constitutional Law? Rachel Carson Middle School in Herndon Virginia! Asked once again to coach the team of young scholars, airport lawyer Doug Landau spent the past several months working with the kids on…
Continue readingWhile workers’ compensation is considered a “no-fault” system, there are instances where the culpability of the injured worker is examined. In airport injury cases, normally the negligence of the injured worker is often not an issue. Intentionally inflicted injuries are a topic for another day. A flight attendant or ground crew member can be clumsy…
Continue readingThe Herndon, Virginia office of Abrams Landau, Ltd. is located just down the road from Dulles International Airport, and not far from Reagan National and Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airports. This makes it convenient for our airline and airport worker clients and witnesses to visit our office to meet with airport injury lawyer Doug Landau. However,…
Continue readingRecently, National Public Radio (NPR) published a news series condemning changes in our country’s workers’ comp system which have made it increasingly difficult for injured workers, including airline pilots, flight crew, grounds crew, tug drivers, airport skycaps and other airport workers, to collect the benefits to which they are entitled. Click here to read our…
Continue readingAt most international airports, including the three major airports in the Washington DC Metro area — Baltimore Washington International Airport (“BWI”), Dulles International Airport (“IAD”), and Reagan National Airport (“WAS”) — there is a ticketing and points system for drivers on the “airport operations area” (AOA) just like on the roads and interstate highways. However,…
Continue readingIf you work for an airport or airline, what happens if you are injured on the job? Will the airline’s or airport’s workers’ comp policy provide you the necessary protections? Will you seamlessly apply for and be approved to receive workers’ compensation benefits? According to an article published by National Public Radio (NPR), the answer…
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