Category Archives: Job Accidents

Employer’s Insurance Company cannot simply fail to pay an injured worker without first filing a Hearing Application, even if it believes it has overpaid !

The ABRAMS LANDAU trial team went to Richmond on behalf of a disabled client who was underpaid by the workers compensation insurance company. In a decision handed down this month in this multi-state plane crash case, the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission judge ruled that: An employer is not allowed to unilaterally stop payment of compensation…

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Herndon, Virginia Injury Disability Lawyer Doug Landau Explains How to Settle a Workers Comp Case AFTER the 500 Weeks Have Run

How can you settle a Virginia Workers Compensation Claim AFTER all 500 weeks of wage loss comp have been paid? You can settle all or part of a workers compensation case. You can settle the wage loss and permanency part, which is also known as the “indemnity compensation.” You can also settle the medical benefits,…

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Skull fractures, serious head injuries and brain trauma – Doug Landau’s experience working for premier English law firm

In 1983 I had the good fortune to work for the Thompson solicitor firm in their London headquarters. This firm of over 120 solicitors in a dozen locations throughout the United Kingdom used the most advanced advocacy techniques to help clients with injury, accident and disease claims. Because the science is the same on “both…

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Dog bite lawyer Doug Landau notes that dog attacks and injuries to outside delivery man can occur while animal is inside the house !

A delivery man was bitten through storm door and received a puncture wound to his hand. The innocent delivery man had to undergo surgery for the tendon and nerve damage caused by the dog’s attack. In this case, the plaintiff was a UPS delivery man who was bitten in the hand by the defendant’s white…

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