Just 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…
Continue readingRunways are not the only dangerous place at our international airports. Construction and repairs to the terminal also require hazardous work. Transportation of jet fuel and testing engines inside of the hangers also pose a high degree of risk to the airline workers and airport personnel assigned to these tasks. While there are Federal rules…
Continue readingJust as many flights were delayed due to “Winter Storm Titan,” the Landau Law Shop was closed today. Even if ABRAMS LANDAU staff had been able to get to work, it was unsafe for disabled clients to attempt to travel on hazardous Northern Virginia roads. We understand that it has been difficult for the individuals…
Continue readingThe “golden rule” — treat others as you yourself want to be treated — is not allowed in a damages trial in court. The golden rule argument would have jurors considering, for example, how much the loss of the use of an arm would mean to them. Virtually all courts have considered such arguments to…
Continue readingAfter having seen movies where there’s an exciting chase scene on an airport runway, it was a thrill for Herndon lawyer Doug Landau to actually get to be in a chase scene of his own. In this case, lawyer Landau was chasing other runners in the Manassas Runway race ! In his own version of…
Continue readingWhile the different states have time limits for bringing a personal injury case, and the Federal Government has time limits for cases brought in Federal Courts, once a case is filed within the applicable time period, it may take years before it goes to trial. Filing the lawsuit “stops the clock” of the legal time…
Continue readingWhen we were kids, there were always arguments about who got to “go first.” But at the airport, this question takes on great importance. With large jets, small luggage tugs, turbo props and fuel trucks all using the same surface area, air travelers wonder how chaos is avoided when there are no “aircraft traffic cops”…
Continue readingMetropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), the overseeing authority for Reagan National and Dulles International Airports, the Dulles Toll Road, and the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project extending the Metro’s silver line to Dulles airport and into Loudoun County, has come under fire from the Department of Transportation (DOT) in a report issued last November. In a…
Continue readingWhen I am injured at the airport deplaning, or collecting my luggage, why can’t the local police investigate my airport accident case ? Passenger and airline employee injuries that occur at Dulles and National Airports’ “Airports Operation Area” (or “AOA”) are investigated by the Airport Police. The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (“MWAA”) has its own…
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