{"id":1726,"date":"2016-05-21T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/airportinjurylawyer\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:18:12","slug":"post-911-pentagon-fatality-results-in-awards-for-daughters-by-two-different-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/airportinjurylawyer\/2016\/05\/21\/post-911-pentagon-fatality-results-in-awards-for-daughters-by-two-different-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-9\/11 Pentagon Fatality Results in Awards for Daughters by Two Different Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Air travel was forever changed on 9\/11\/2001. Airport injury lawyer Doug Landau represented the families of an airline pilot, senior flight attendant, and passengers killed on that infamous day. In a tragic twist, he also helped the families of a worker killed in a post-911 accident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In one of the more tragic cases of Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau’s career, he was called upon to represent a worker who died in the aftermath of the 9\/11 attack on the Pentagon outside of Washington DC.<\/p>\n

The Abrams Landau team represented the family of the pilot of the jet that crashed into the Pentagon, as well as the senior flight attendant’s family, and those of passengers traveling.<\/p>\n

The devastation did not stop on that infamous day.<\/p>\n

A crack team of welders was brought in from Colorado to repair the damage to our nation\u2019s military headquarters. One of these workers was fatally crushed by a steel beam girder that fell out of its placement sling.\u00a0 He died instantly in a horrific manner.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Landau was contacted, and undertook to represent the deceased worker\u2019s middle school age daughter, living in Colorado with the employee’s ex-wife.<\/p>\n

However, the decedent had divorced his first wife and mother of his daughter, and remarried.\u00a0 And in a tragic twist, his new wife was pregnant, but did not give birth until sometime after the post 9\/11 workplace accident.<\/p>\n

So what happens next?<\/p>\n

As the ex-wife and current wife could not agree for the case to be settled, Doug Landau was able to fashion an Award from the Virginia Worker’s Compensation Commission that provided payments to BOTH daughters equally, until such time as either:<\/p>\n