Doug Landau has represented (and is currently helping) workers and their families who have been permanently disabled or killed due to lapses in work site safety. New York City and other major cities are experiencing building booms, and evidence of new construction is seemingly all around. However, in the Big Apple, that activity has come…
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Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau was recently contacted by a fellow lawyer in New Jersey. Landau’s NJ colleague is representing a widow whose husband, a cook in a restaurant, was found unconscious in the basement of the restaurant after apparently falling from a ladder located below a trap door in the kitchen. The man died…
Continue readingWhen a worker has sustained a permanent injury to an arm or leg, resulting in a large permanency rating of 30, 40 or even 50%, they often feel they cannot return to work. This is especially true for commercial truck and bus drivers, delivery men and women, and those laborers who work in the “big…
Continue readingNot necessarily notes Stafford area workers’ comp lawyer Doug Landau. The robbery, shooting, or even murder must “arise out of” and “in the course of” the victim’s employment. In one case handled by the Herndon law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd, the insurance company denied Workers’ Compensation benefits to the grieving mother and family of a…
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Not necessarily, notes Loudoun County workers’ comp lawyer Doug Landau. The insurance company nurses are not assigned to your case to render treatment or therapy or administer medications. Instead, these nurses very often are assigned to your file to save the insurance company money by limiting medical care, influencing the doctors to choose less expensive…
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