In a word, “no.” For an injured worker to get a “Permanency Award,” there should be no painful medical testing, as the physicians observe and measure the scar sites. The doctors do not usually put the patient through range of motion or sensation testing when determinations about the extent of scarring are concerned. To get…
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Unlike other states, the Virginia Workers Compensation law does not include Awards for permanent injury to every part of an injured worker’s body. An employee hurt on the job in a compensable accident can get a permanency Award for a permanent injury to the thumb. The doctor may give a large rating to the thumb…
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The Virginia law firm of ABRAMS LANDAU has won cases for scarring in states that allow Awards for “severe marked disfigurement.” In order to win, Doug Landau proves to the Workers Compensation judge three key elements. Landau demonstrates that the scarring is: (1) permanent; (2) marked, unsightly, severe; and (3) is directly related to the…
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Once again I have been asked to help with the New Judges Orientation by the Virginia Supreme Court. The mock trials presented to the “judges in training” are helpful in getting the new jurists ready for their jobs on the bench. I will be in Richmond for these Mock Trials the afternoon of Thursday, April…
Continue readingNegligent construction and unmended leaks in the windows can let moisture in to your house, allowing toxin-producing mold to grow and spread. A Loudoun jury recently awarded a family harmed by mold in their own home $4.75 million, among the largest awards in a mold case in Virginia. The defendant home construction company had not…
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