Many private disability insurance companies have rules about what you must do to continue receive benefits. For Short Term Disability (“STD”), most insurance companies require simply that the insured be disabled from their “OWN OCCUPATION.” This “Own Occ” requirement means that you cannot perform the essential requirements of your own job. Usually, after a…
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A backlog of appeals at the Social Security Administration has left hundreds of thousands of disabled claimants bankrupt, evicted and in some cases dead, attorneys and agency officials say. Governmental infighting has slowed the hiring of new judges to hear SSDI appeals, which currently numbers 755,000. The wait for Hearings before an Administrative Law Judge…
Continue readingWorking in a car auction house can be dangerous. An ABRAMS LANDAU client was able to get a substantial workers comp settlement after having her legs crushed as she was helping to prepare a vehicle for sale. The claimant was an Auction Company’s employee who suffered severe crush injury to her legs when another employee…
Continue readingEven in the best of retail stores, accidents can happen. Doug Landau and the ABRAMS LANDAU team was able to help a Nordstrom’s saleswoman who was injured when a glass wine bucket shattered, deeply cutting her left wrist and right thigh. She required 20 stitches and sustained nerve and tendon damage. Under the workers compensation…
Continue readingAn ABRAMS LANDAU client who had several on the job injuries affecting his lumbar spine (lower back), was later involved in a car crash that injured his cervical spine (neck). Herndon “Super Lawyer” Doug Landau successfully settled his workers comp claims for this client who is also receiving monthly Social Security Disability Income for his…
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