Waiting may seem like a simple and annoying, aspect of our lives, but for 1.1 million disability claimants in the U.S., it’s an excruciating, life-numbing process and often a matter of life or death. On November 21, 2017, the front page of The Washington Post featured a striking piece on the current state of the…
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Does a wife’s receipt of Social Security Disability make her husband’s Disability benefit case harder? How about her son or daughter’s claims? The short answer is “one family member’s receipt of Social Security Disability Income (“SSDI”) based upon their own medical and earnings record, should have no impact on another’s application for benefits. And, if…
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In an effort to get the “Age Load” of pending DC cases under 2 years, several of the Social Security Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) met with members of the Abrams Landau disability trial team as well as other members of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Social Security section. The invitation for a “Bench Bar Dialog with…
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With a court date looming for an ABRAMS LANDAU client who contracted C-Difficile while working in the maintenance department of a Northern Virginia retirement facility, attorney Doug Landau was intrigued by an article in a recent issue of VIRGINIA BUSINESS. Titled, “Study shows effect of copper infused products,” it examined the results of the world’s…
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Social Security Disability Hearings are different than court hearings in that the judge will question the disabled claimant as well as witnesses. In that way they are similar to Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, and Judge Alex, which you may have seen on television. But that’s where the similarity ends. They do not render their…
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