Last summer, four teenage boys and one teenage girl were returning home from a party in Glastonbury, Connecticut. The girl was not driving — at least not at first. After making two stops, at each of which two boys were dropped off, the girl was the lone person left to drive herself home. Unfortunately she…
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In 2013 ABRAMS LANDAU was able to help injured and disabled folks from all over the country. We won Workers Compensation cases for clients from: Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, Nevada, Georgia, and other states. The Herndon Virginia law firm also helped clients in car crash, dog bite, bike accident and slip…
Continue readingThe headline in this case is certainly eye-catching. When you first read it, you may think this is about a driver who was distracted by seeing the exposed breasts of woman whose bikini top had fallen down. In fact, however, the driver herself was the one whose bikini top fell. This tragic case of distracted…
Continue readingVirginia, like most states, has a Hazing Law which makes hazing at any school, college or university against the law. Teasing that was considered an all-in-good-fun rite of passage decades ago is now known to be hazing — dangerous and illegal. Section 18.2-56 of the Code of Virginia provides the following: “It shall be unlawful…
Continue readingIf you buy a new appliance, car, computer, or really almost any household device, your new purchase comes with a warranty against product defects. But what about artificial joints? A hip? A knee? Hip and knee replacements are somewhat commonplace, yet only one joint manufacturer even offers a warranty, but only for one of…
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