Category Archives: Disability

Doug Landau learns something new every day: stem cells from baby teeth – a potential treatment for spinal cord injury and other disabling diseases

While traveling to visit clients in Toano, Virginia, I learned that you can preserve a child’s baby teeth, which contain stem cells, which may be able to be used later to treat spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, and even cancer and heart disease. Karen Bodett shown here with her daughter who was involved in a…

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Employer’s Insurance Company cannot simply fail to pay an injured worker without first filing a Hearing Application, even if it believes it has overpaid !

The ABRAMS LANDAU trial team went to Richmond on behalf of a disabled client who was underpaid by the workers compensation insurance company. In a decision handed down this month in this multi-state plane crash case, the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission judge ruled that: An employer is not allowed to unilaterally stop payment of compensation…

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Doug Landau visits “DreamCatchers” therapeutic horseback riding center: helping children with traumatic brain injury, paralysis and other disabilities

In prior posts, I have commented on how I have been inspired by clients and have learned so much. This past weekend I had the opportunity to watch a young client take a riding lesson at Dream Catchers near Williamsburg, Virginia. Dream Catchers is the premier therapeutic riding center between Richmond and Virginia Beach. Students…

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