Whilst in Australia, the headline “Dog Attack Injuries Bite Hard” caught the eye of Doug Landau. Apparently, serious dog attack injuries are on the rise despite the number of registered canines being unchanged. A...
Category: Personal Injury
My Leg is Ruined – How can my Workers’ Comp Insurance Company Expect Me to Find Work?
October 27, 2015
When a worker has sustained a permanent injury to an arm or leg, resulting in a large permanency rating of 30, 40 or even 50%, they often feel they cannot return to work. This is especially true for commercial truck and bus...
Not necessarily notes Stafford area workers’ comp lawyer Doug Landau. The robbery, shooting, or even murder must “arise out of” and “in the course of” the victim’s employment. In one case...
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company Assigned me a Free Nurse! That’s a Good Thing, Right?
October 12, 2015
Not necessarily, notes Loudoun County workers’ comp lawyer Doug Landau. The insurance company nurses are not assigned to your case to render treatment or therapy or administer medications. Instead, these nurses very often...
Does Being Illiterate Constitute Willful Violation of a Safety Rule in Workers’ Comp Cases?
October 7, 2015
Can a worker whose fingers or toes are amputated because he or she could not read a machine’s instructions get workers’ compensation benefits? In workers’ comp cases, employers or their insurance company can win on...