Congress cleared the way for what will likely be the first piece of significant legislation signed by President Obama. In a 250-to-177 vote, the House of Representatives passed the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill that will ease restrictions on workers seeking to recover damages for workplace discrimination based on sex, race, religion, national origin,…
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This afternoon Doug Landau once again helped out a partner at the Reston Virginia law firm of Dain, Walker, Sobhani & Nicoli with questions about one of their personal injury cases. The ABRAMS LANDAU trial lawyer is regularly called by experienced lawyers from all over Northern Virginia to assist them and their disabled clients. Landau…
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Even firms that specialize in personal injury cases find that they need help with the Workers Compensation and/or Social Security Disability claims that an injured client may also be able to bring. Since most firms do not handle these State and Federal government “administrative claims,” they call upon ABRAMS LANDAU to assist in catastrophic and…
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In a previous post, I wrote about meeting Federal Workers Compensation specialist Stephen Scavuzzo at his magnificent Tysons Corner office. Today attorney Scavuzzo was kind enough to spend some time at ABRAMS LANAU, Ltd. and teach us about the largely misunderstood world of Federal Government Comp claims. One of the good things about what I…
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While the case did not meet the criteria for ABRAMS LANDAU cases, Doug Landau took on the claim of a young architecture student whose fingers were severed in a workplace accident. When it came time to settle the case, the client a very good question. Why is there some much paperwork to settle a small…
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