The following safety checklist from the Rocky Rural Electrification Association (“RREA”) came across electrical injury lawyer Doug Landau’s desk recently. The RREA provides complete Power Distribution services to its members. Their Safety Checklist includes the following considerations: Are all trees in the yard free and clear from overhead power lines? Are your farmyard buildings located…
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Keeping your distance from overhead power lines can turn out to be a matter of life and death, warns electrocution and electrification injury lawyer Doug Landau. Overhead power lines are “live” and uninsulated. Inadvertent contact with an overhead power line can cause a serious permanent or even fatal injuries. Landau has represented families who have…
Continue readingIn several ABRAMS LANDAU Workers Compensation settlements, the parties have agreed to a compromise of the case and also submitted a Medicare Set Aside (“MSA”) so that the Social Security Administration will not be “left holding the bag”. In other words, according to Broadland and Ashburn disability lawyer Doug Landau, the Federal Government does not…
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According to Herndon and Sterling Virginia workers compensation lawyer Doug Landau, marketing residual physical abilities is critical to the receipt of benefits after a “light duty work” release. However, many ABRAMS LANDAU clients suggest that this is an exercise in futility in light of recent economic trends. The Herndon Connection newspaper article by Julia O’Donahue’s…
Continue readingBedsores, or decubitus ulcers, are a constant concern for those ABRAMS LANDAU clients with disabling injuries and paralysis. Doug Landau’s clients and family members who are bedridden after an accident or surgery, are at risk for bedsores if not properly rotated, turned and positioned. Lawyer Landau has won permanent total disability cases for injuries made…
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