While many states do not require that the injured car crash, slip and fall or dog bite victim place a specific amount in their lawsuit papers, because they recognize that injuries, treatment, lost time from work and eventual permanency may be months and years away, Virginia requires a sum certain. The “amount sued for” is…
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The costs of medical care are on everyone’ mind these days. Having worked for the incoming President of the American Medical Association (“AMA”), Doug Landau has long advocated for positive changes in the delivery and economics of the delivery of medical services in the United States. The subject is complex, and there are many competing…
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Celebrating my first boss’s election as President of the American Medical Association (“AMA”) with family and friends tonight at the New York Academy of Medicine was a singular experience, much like the induction ceremony when my father Norman Landau was inducted into the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (“ATLA”, now the American Association for…
Continue readingRehabilitating dogs trained to fight caught my attention, as I had followed the sad saga of Michael Vick and his dangerous Pit Bulls. At ABRAMS LANDAU, we have helped many adults and children attacked and permanently injured by vicious and dangerously trained dogs. An NPR news story examined what has happened to the canines since…
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The Fairfax Bar Association, which serves the Northern Virginia Legal Community, has issued notice to the personal injury bar that the judges of the Fairfax County Circuit Court have decided to adopt a system for the appointment of guardians ad litem for infants in cases seeking the approval of an infant settlement and for minor…
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