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Mediation in Virginia on the job injury cases is a VOLUNTARY process. The insurance company and defense lawyers cannot force an injured work or their family to submit to Mediation. Likewise, as much as we may want to in a particular case, we cannot force the insurer or their hired guns to agree to mediate…
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Mediation of workplace accident cases has long been a “win-win” proposition. This form of “Atlernative Dispute Resolution” was offered free of charge and recommended for all kinds of disputes, from medical payment, to vocational rehabilitation to rules and procedures. The Virginia Lawyers Weekly October 18, 1999 headline read, “Mediating Workers’ Comp Claims – Commission promotes…
Continue readingWhen the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported December 28, 2011 that a dangerous driver plead guilty to DUI and involuntary manslaughter in Loudoun County Circuit Court and that it was his “third DUI charge in five years,” car crash lawyer Doug Landau wondered how this man even had a license to drive BEFORE the fatal crash that…
Continue readingGetting a settlement in a permanent injury workers compensation case in Virginia can be very difficult. There is no law that says that the workers comp insurance company EVER has to settle with the injured worker or their family, even if the claimant is permanently disabled. This is true even if the disabled worker is…
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