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…
Continue readingWhile the Abrams Landau team routinely secures Police Accident Reports in car crash, Airport injury and dog bite cases, securing other reports is more difficult. Furthermore, you cannot pay for reports made by insurance companies and their claims investigators. Virginia “Super Lawyer” Landau reminds innocent victims that the earlier they contact a competent, experienced trial…
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We have had several recent cases where our clients were injured very seriously, or killed, by negligence drivers who had little or no car insurance. In one example, our client was run down by a cab while riding his bicycle. Because the cabbie only had $100,000 in insurance coverage and few assets, we looked to…
Continue readingIn workers compensation cases, even experienced lawyers make the mistake of not including perks (fringe benefits) in the calculation of the injured workers average weekly wage. Perks such as; housing, transportation, food, uniforms, etc. can, and often do have a very real value to the employee. In Virginia, such things as health, disability and life…
Continue readingYou would think that a lawyer listed as “One of the Best Lawyers in America” would have more important things to worry about than the envelopes his clients’; checks come in from the insurance companies.You could not be more wrong. Virginia Trial Lawyer Doug Landau reminds clients under the protection of a Workers Comp Award…
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