Sometimes lawyers take on cases that they are not equipped, staffed or experienced to take. We represent a cyclist who was struck by a car. He originally retained a Loudoun County lawyer for his personal injury case. That lawyer, David Young of the Leesburg law firm Ault & Young, was given records, bills, exhibits and…
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Rarely do disabled Virginia Workers get more than 500 weeks of wage loss compensation. Even in fatal accident cases, the families of the deceased workers do not even get 10 years of benefits. However, in very limited cases, where the injured worker has lost BOTH arms, legs, eyes, hands or feet, they can apply for…
Continue readingAfter a number of decisions where the disabled worker lost continuing wage loss benefits because their efforts to look for light duty work did not pass muster, the Full Commission of the Virginia Workers Compensation ruled in favor of a claimant on this difficult issue ! In Waldman vs. Wal-Mart, the testimony was that approximately…
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It’s gotten harder, but the short answer, according to Herndon Reston workplace injury lawyer Doug Landau is “yes.” Two 2010 cases made it look like a partial disabled worker would always lose on the issue of marketing unless they were “pounding pavement” every single day. In the 2010 Ruffin case, the Full Virginia Workers Comp…
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At the Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU we are often asked by perplexed personal injury lawyers and disabled workers to decipher the Virginia Workers Compensation Act to determine when an on the job accident is “compensable.” An employee can be injured in a Virginia workplace mishap but be “barred” by what is know as “the…
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