Category Archives: Disease Claims

Herndon Reston disability and injury lawyer Doug Landau discusses the importance of medication side effects in Social Security Disability cases

We have all seen the orange, pink, yellow and blue labels on the sides of pill bottles. “May cause drowsiness” “Avoid operating machinery” “Take with food” These are important warnings, because the side effects of some very good medications can cause problems in an industrial setting. In a recent Social Security Disability case, the judge…

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Construction accidents stories win Pulitzer Prize: Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the building boom on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Las Vegas Sun won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories exposing the causes of construction site injuries. Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed…

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