“Usually the Social Security Administration is not bound by the disability decisions of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (“VWC”), the DC Office of Workers Compensation (“OWC”), or even a state judge or jury’s verdict in a disabled wage earner’s case,” notes Herndon disability lawyer Doug Landau. “I have had Federal Social Security judges tell me…
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President Obama announced his BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, which the White House describes as “a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind.” Herndon brain injury lawyer Doug Landau welcomes this new human brain research initiative. Just as the American Medical Association’s “Decade of the Brain” helped…
Continue readingLast year the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) decided to stop making known in advance the identity of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) assigned to hear a case. Read about why Herndon Virginia Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) lawyer Doug Landau called the move “Cowardice in Court”. In welcome news for anyone awaiting a hearing, it…
Continue readingThe details in this case are hard to believe. It would stand to reason that if a person is legally blind, a claim for Social Security disability benefits would be a slam dunk. But in this case, that is not what happened. Instead, in the case of this 59-year old, wage earning Georgia woman whose…
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Some of the best Social Security lawyers from around the USA gathered in New Orleans this week to compare strategies for helping disabled individuals and their families at the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”) continuing legal education program. In addition to presentations by top lawyers on such subjects as paperless files at Administrative Law Judge…
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