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Willful Violation of a known and enforced safety rule: Bad news for the injured worker The violation of a known and enforced safety rule by an employee often serves to cause an otherwise valid workplace injury claim to be...

The Virginia Workers’ Comp law says that if you lose the use of 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, etc., in an on-the-job accident, you can get compensation benefits beyond the 500 weeks. In a case handled by a friend, a worker...

Every year around this time, the ABRAMS LANDAU workers’ comp team gets a notification that clients may be entitled to an increase in their weekly compensation checks, per yearly cost-of-living adjustments (COLA). They...

Can I change jobs if I am hurt at work? Workers compensation laws can get complicated, and downright dizzying when trying to follow the variations from state to state. This is one of those questions we are asked fairly...

In an unpublished decision by the Virginia Court of Appeals, a worker was killed while driving a company van, to an appointment with a customer, but denied Worker’s Compensation benefits. The appellate court ruled that...