Category Archives: Job Accidents

Fast on their feet ! VTLA “Legal Eagles” finish at the front of the Richmond Marathon weekend races.

While anyone who knows Doug Landau knows that this Herndon, Chantilly and Centreville injury lawyer finds races all over the country (and the world) when he travels for cases and to meet clients, there are also other Virginia Trial Lawyers who run, and run well !  At this past weekend’s Richmond Marathon, Half Marathon and…

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Case Settlements – Who approves injured workers’ Virginia Workers Compensation settlements?

While Herndon job injury lawyer Doug Landau advises clients that settling comp claims take time and effort, there are still many questions about the settlements of workers compensation cases.  The Virginia Code provides (65.2-701) that compromise settlements of workplace accident, occupational disease or job fatality cases, “may be approved only when the Commission…is clearly of…

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Good witnesses use their senses; Chantilly crash and accident lawyer Doug Landau on “Why there’s more than meets the eye”

Good witnesses can methodically recall what happened before, during and after an impact through the use of all of their 5 senses. These observers can not only recollect what they saw before and after a car crash, but they can also relate what they: smelled (gasoline on the pavement, leaking transmission fluids, burning rubber from…

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