Sometimes, despite the best preparations, the insurance company’s “hired gun” medical examiner still finds a way for the Defendant to avoid responsibility for the harms and losses the car and bike crash, dog attack or other type of accident caused. You have prepared for the Insurance Medical Exam (the “IME”) and the report is unfavorable. …
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There are many steps you and your legal counsel can do to prepare for an Insurance medical Exam. In most states, it is legal to record your exam with a voice or video recorder after disclosure that you are doing so. This will be powerful evidence if the insurance company physician’s report diverges from what…
Continue readingWhen a Defendant’s Insurance Company cannot defeat a negligence claim they will often attack the claims for harms and losses by hiring a doctor to do their bidding. These “hired guns” derive a large part of their incomes from doing reports for insurance companies and testifying against injured car crash and dog attack victims in…
Continue readingMost Social Security Disability Income (“SSDI”) applicants are surprised to find that the Federal Government will use their tax dollars to hire expert witnesses to testify against them at their hearings. While these can be medical doctors, psychiatric specialists and Ph.Ds, ABRAMS LANDAU disability lawyer Doug Landau usually sees a “Vocational Expert” (“VE”) on the…
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Many people are under the impression that if they become injured and receive workers’ compensation, they cannot collect any other compensation for their losses. Fortunately, at the Landau Law Shop, we routinely show injured workers and disabled accident victims that this is not always the case. If you are injured in a Virginia, Maryland or…
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