Our client was a guest at one of the Inns at Colonial Williamsburg. He went into bathroom in his hotel room and turned on the heatlamp. This was the original unit that was installed in the hotel in 1983. He sat down on the toilet. The hotel heat lamp heated to a critical point, broke…
Continue readingA structured settlement can help clients avoid economic uncertainty. By agreeing to receive periodic payments, Herndon trial lawyer Doug Landau’s clients have chosen to plan for their and their family’s futures. Settlements for personal injury and workers comp claims are usually free of state, local and federal income tax. Also, the structured payments or annuities,…
Continue readingRecent tracking of our clients demonstrates what we have known for generations: our clients come to us on the recommendations of friends, family, neighbors, their doctors, lawyers and other professionals. That is one of the reasons we donot advertise. Not in the yellow pages. Not on TV. Not in thenewspaper. Not on the Internet. We…
Continue readingABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. recently won a Social Security Disability Income case for a client whose 500 weeks of workers compensation benefits had been paid and whose wage loss file had been closed by the insurance company and the government. Scheduled to appear before an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) in Baltimore, Maryland, our young client had…
Continue readingVirginia’s injured workers are being short-changed every day. The reason is that their compensation rates are being miscalculated or determined with incomplete information. Workers compensation wage loss benefit (and permanent injury) rates are supposed to be based upon what the employee got pre-injury. Instead, Virginia workers are being short-changed on the front end (the calculation…
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