Many private disability insurance companies have rules about what you must do to continue receive benefits. For Short Term Disability (“STD”), most insurance companies require simply that the insured be disabled from their “OWN OCCUPATION.” This “Own Occ” requirement means that you cannot perform the essential requirements of your own job. Usually, after a…
Continue readingWhile the Abrams Landau team routinely secures Police Accident Reports in car crash, Airport injury and dog bite cases, securing other reports is more difficult. Furthermore, you cannot pay for reports made by insurance companies and their claims investigators. Virginia “Super Lawyer” Landau reminds innocent victims that the earlier they contact a competent, experienced trial…
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A backlog of appeals at the Social Security Administration has left hundreds of thousands of disabled claimants bankrupt, evicted and in some cases dead, attorneys and agency officials say. Governmental infighting has slowed the hiring of new judges to hear SSDI appeals, which currently numbers 755,000. The wait for Hearings before an Administrative Law Judge…
Continue readingWhile Herndon trial lawyer Doug Landau represents injured workers almost exclusively, he takes on several defense cases for companies, medical practices and individuals who have no insurance or whose insurance is not protecting them. In this case, the accused doctor had no insurance protection from a six-figure claim.
Continue readingHerndon trial lawyer Doug Landau is frequently contacted by individuals and law firms with fatal accident claims. Because of his experience in actually trying fatality claims before the Workers Compensation Commission and his inclusion in the book “Best Lawyers in America,” Landau has been brought into many death cases, even at the “24th hour.”
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