A recent study found that most leaks of patient information were due to the negligence of employees of healthcare providers, not by attacks from external hackers. Because of this, you should be extra careful about what information you give to your doctors’ offices, hospitals and local drug stores. The study, published in the Journal of
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Our law firm is always looking to improve our skillsets and knowledge. Education is important to everyone here at Abrams Landau, Ltd., especially if that means that we can better educate and assist our clients. Therefore, we always take advantage of this great program by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (VWC). The VWC offers training
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“There is no magic formula for car crash injury cases,” notes lawyer Doug Landau of the Herndon, Virginia law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd. “If there was, then the insurance companies would simply feed a case into a computer that would spit out a number that the injured victim would be stuck with. But that is
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The easy answer is “no.” You are not covered by workers’ compensation insurance if you have not yet reported for work. However, Virginia workers’ compensation lawyer Doug Landau says that there are exceptions to this rule. For example, under what is known as the “personal comfort doctrine,” the employee may clock out of work and
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Always wondering how long infrastructure, roads and airport construction are supposed to last, attorney Doug Landau noted an article that stated that the $2.6 billion project extending the D.C. region’s Metrorail Silver Line to Dulles International Airport and into Ashburn had concrete components that were supposed to last 100 years! However, an article by the
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