Waiting may seem like a simple and annoying, aspect of our lives, but for 1.1 million disability claimants in the U.S., it’s an excruciating, life-numbing process and often a matter of life or death. On November 21, 2017,...
Category: Disability
Does One Family Member’s Receipt of Social Security Disability Make Another Family Member’s Case Harder?
November 13, 2017
Does a wife’s receipt of Social Security Disability make her husband’s Disability benefit case harder? How about her son or daughter’s claims? The short answer is “one family member’s receipt of Social Security...
Visit with DC Social Security Hearings Office Judges
November 5, 2017
In an effort to get the “Age Load” of pending DC cases under 2 years, several of the Social Security Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) met with members of the Abrams Landau disability trial team as...
Copper-Infused Products Can Reduce C-Difficile, Hospital Bacteria & Other Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
October 30, 2017
With a court date looming for an ABRAMS LANDAU client who contracted C-Difficile while working in the maintenance department of a Northern Virginia retirement facility, attorney Doug Landau was intrigued by an article in a...
Preparing for Your Social Security Disability Hearing
August 17, 2017
Social Security Disability Hearings are different than court hearings in that the judge will question the disabled claimant as well as witnesses. In that way they are similar to Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, and Judge Alex,...