In a recent case in which a security guard fell backwards when she sat on a low brick wall at her workplace, the Court of Appeals of Virginia found that she cannot show her accident was causally related to any actual risk at...
Category: Personal Injury
New Dog Tethering Rules in Fairfax City
January 31, 2015
A new law makes the City of Fairfax tougher on dog owners than the Commonwealth of Virginia. City of Fairfax Ordinance No. 21014-32 was signed by Mayor Scott Silverthorne on December 15, 2014. Effective on that date, within...
Connecticut Law Allows an Injured Plaintiff to Name the Underinsured Motorist Carrier in a Lawsuit
January 29, 2015
Virginia law does not let a plaintiff’s lawyer like Doug Landau mention the name of the insurance company or even the word “insurance” at trial. If the word is mentioned, it usually results in a mistrial....
Last year, Herndon Virginia lawyer Doug Landau answered a plea for a volunteer to help 8th graders from his local middle school prepare for a competition on Constitutional Law. Doug went weekly to Rachel Carson Middle...
Collision Research Center at George Mason University
January 26, 2015
Do you ever wonder who researches collisions and where that research happens? At Abrams Landau, Ltd. we think a lot about safety — workplace safety, roadway safety, sports safety, airport and aircraft safety, etc....