The shootings and carbon monoxide poisoning tragedies at Virginia Tech brought to light a potentially terrifying situation: the inability of parents to get information about their college students’ health and well-being. In this day and age of cell phones, beepers and instant text messaging, we have gotten accustomed to instant information on our family members’…
Continue readingThe Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation (“CBTF”) puts out a wonderful and inspiring publication, called the Neurotransmitter. It has articles about breakthroughs in cancer treatment and research. The CBTF publication also has actual case studies and success stories. Grants funded by the CBTF and Conference Sponsorships as well as fund raising events are also highlighted. One…
Continue readingMany 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…
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