Having seen and assisted at more car, truck and bike crashes than I can recount, I was nevertheless shaken this morning by the scene outside my neighborhood. A biker had apparently been hit by a car and badly injured at West Ox Road and Ashburton in the Herndon – Oakton Woods area of Fairfax County,…
Continue readingWhen people think about lawyers they always seem to generalize the profession in terms of a few outlying cases. The one that comes to mind is the utter disbelief that people felt towards the McDonald’s coffee case. It seemed clear to everyone, myself included, that a case against McDonald’s for having hot coffee was nonsense. …
Continue readingWhile Interstate car and truck crash injury lawyer Doug Landau would have guessed that there would be fewer crashes from “hands free” cell phone operation, the numbers his mother sent him from New Jersey suggest that may not necessarily be so. Landau grew up in Bergan County and has tried cases in Hudson County, so…
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Teaming up with another outstanding defense attorney enabled Herndon and South Riding area injury lawyer Doug Landau to show lawyers from South West Virginia how to maximize recovery for their disabled clients. Roanoke defense lawyer David Carson of Johnson, Ayers & Matthews the view from the insurance company perspective in a “Point Counterpoint” presentation. The…
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It appears that in the next few years, cars will be equipped with black boxes, much like in airplanes, that can record data during a crash. The debate now, between Congress and safety groups, is how much and what type of data these boxes should record. Lawmakers and automakers are struggling to agree on how…
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