Scalding and Other Injuries in the Air: What International Aircraft Law Applies and How Do You Start a Lawsuit? Clients often ask what is meant by all the legal jargon in the paperwork to start their cases in court. If the claim cannot be settled, a lawsuit must be filed within the applicable legal time…
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When luggage handlers and other airport workers hurt their backs, dislocate their shoulders, or injure their cervical spine while loading and unloading heavy bags, their injuries may not always be covered by Virginia Law. Where there is a cumulative injury, your claim can be denied by the Worker’s Compensation Insurance Company if it does not…
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Is there a limit to how many body parts can be covered by workers compensation? If there are medical records that prove the injuries are because of the workplace accident and the defendants—typically the employer and insurer—agree that they are compensable workplace injuries, then no, there is no limit to how many body parts can…
Continue readingWorker’s Compensation insurance companies do not volunteer to tell injured airport workers what additional benefits they may be entitled to, in addition to the basic medical care and partial wage replacement. Avoiding paying “full value” is what insurers do. Every day. Recently an insurance company for a local airport filed papers with the Virginia Worker’s…
Continue readingWhy would an airline, or an airline’s workers compensation insurance company, hire investigators to follow an injured airline employee ? Why would the air carriers’ gumshoes search the disabled workers’ FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media ? According to air injury lawyer Doug Landau, the short answer is “Economics.” “Airlines have an economic…
Continue readingDisabled airline passengers are protected by the provisions of the Airline Carrier Access Act (ACAA). Enacted in 1986, the ACAA “provides that no airline carrier may discriminate against any otherwise qualified individual with a disability, by reason of such disability, in the provision of air transportation”. (Source: U.S. Department of Transportation implementing regulations, 14 CFR…
Continue readingNowadays it seems as though every domestic flight on a large commercial air carrier is “a la carte.” As the cartoon sent to me in a solicitation for New Yorker Magazine suggests, even safety may finally be “pay to play.” As many first and business class passengers get to check a bag without charge, and…
Continue readingThe majority of injured workers who contact the Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., are unaware of two requirements under the Virginia Workers Compensation Act that frequently cause disabled claimants to lose thousands of dollars in comp payments. Under the Virginia Comp law, the injured worker must prove every day and hour of their disability…
Continue readingJust because an airline, Reagan National or Dulles International Airport employee falls and badly injures themselves at work, they are NOT automatically entitled to the limited benefits available under the Virginia Workers Compensation Act. Unlike other sates, where almost anything that happens while an airport worker is “on the clock” are covered, Virginia workers comp…
Continue readingNormally airport workers and airline employees wait weeks and months for a decision to be reached in their on the job accident cases. The Virginia Workers Compensation Commission had been advising claimants that it would be at least 3-8 weeks for the case to be decided from the date that the record is closed (and…
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