Category Archives: Negligence Cases

Child exposed to lead-based paint in apartment wins $12.72 million jury verdict for severe intellectual and behavioral problems

According to the April 2009, American Association for Justice Law Reporter, the Plaintiff was an infant when he and his mother moved into an apartment building built before 1960. When the child was 21 months old, blood testing revealed his blood lead concentration to be almost four times the allowable limit. He now has severe…

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Another strategy recommendation from Herndon Virginia accident lawyer Doug Landau for dealing with delays caused by Insurance Companies and Defense Lawyers in dog bite, car crash, bike accident & brain injury cases

“Time is money.” So the saying goes. Injury and disability lawyer Doug Landau recommends to his clients from Ashburn, Leesburg and Sterling Virginia clients that they seek “Prejudgment Interest” in their dog bite, car crash, bike accident and brain injury cases. “Prejudgment Interest” can add up to several hundreds of thousands of dollars in a…

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Owners of Dogs that Bite Innocent Victims are “Charged With Knowledge of Propensities of the Breed”

Virginia dog bite and animal attack lawyer Doug Landau has helped victims recover compensation for their injuries. However, unlike New Jersey’s “Strict Liability” law for dog bites, Virginia law usually requires “prior notice” that a dog is “dangerous” or likely to bite or attack. At ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., we have used evidence of “prior similar…

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Injury lawyer Doug Landau, for the second time since moving his office to Herndon, witnesses a distracted driver smash into a light pole !

Reviewing pictures of car crashes, severe injuries and wreckage every day, I do not expect to be an eyewitness or first responder to an accident. Yet, Wednesday afternoon, for the second time on a main street in Herndon, I witnessed a distracted driver smash into an aluminum light pole, causing it to crash to the…

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Senior Citizen assisted living facility could not force the family of a resident frozen to death to go through arbitration instead of a lawsuit.

A big “shout out” to our friend, co-counsel and panelist Jules Olsman.  ABRAMS LANDAU’s Doug Landau was co-counsel with Jules on a catastrophic brain injury car crash case here in Virginia.  The Herndon and Reston injury lawyer also shared the podium with Olsman at the American Association for Justice (“AAJ”, formerly, ATLA) at the annual…

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