Category Archives: Brain Injury

Social Security disability lawyer Landau asked, “What are the denial rates of the Administrative Law Judge hearing MY case ?”

While the answer to this question used to be difficult, and Northern Virginia claimants’ counsel Doug Landau could only use his own law firm’s actual experiences and the data from other lawyers with whom we share information at the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”), National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (“NOSSCR“) and the Virginia…

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Blacksburg “Beer Pong” game results in fight; Virginia Supreme Court finds insurance coverage for fractured skull injury

After finishing final exams at Virginia Tech, Adam Copp was celebrating and playing beer pong with one of his roommates at a Blacksburg apartment.  Two strangers joined the game and one of them, Carson Dugger, said something to offend Copp.  The young men then got into a shouting match that turned physical when Dugger’s friends…

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Potential remedy for Center for Medicare Services (CMS) slow service that pays for itself !

The lawyers for injured victims have frequently reported that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act is riddled with inefficiency.  HR 4796, the Medicare Secondary Payer Enhancement Act would correct this problem by requiring the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) to respond to requests for their lien amount within 60 days.  A “lien” is like an “IOU,”…

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