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Filling Out One Part of the Workers Compensation Claim Form May be Sufficient to Protect Legal Rights

While Ashburn and Broad Run area workers comp lawyer Doug Landau files his own letters to institute a claim for a disabled clients, many unrepresented workers file the forms provided by the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission without the assistance of legal counsel. Although Landau includes more information than the small space on government forms allow,…

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DC Court of Appeals Upholds Worker’s Compensation Benefit 500 Week Limit

The District of Columbia’s highest appellate court has ruled against a pair of disabled employees who sought to have their disability benefits continue beyond 500 weeks. The workers’ consolidated appeal was unsuccessful, as Senior Judge Newman wrote the affirmance of the Compensation Review Board’s (“CRB”) interpretation of the DC Statute in denying the two employee’s…

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