Shown here is Senior Workers Compensation Legal Assistant Dianna Meredith at the witness stand where she testified on behalf of a client in a workers comp hearing this week. The insurance company had not paid for items in the original Award Order Doug Landau won for this family. This non- payment had been going on…
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When Doug Landau’s law firm received word that a pending case in Florida would also need to be tried in Virginia, and that this fatal airplane crash had already generated boxes of documents, the ABRAMS LANDAU trial team set about to load materials into the firm’s computer system. This way, when the traveling trial lawyer…
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Jury trials look so easy on television and in the movies. In “real life,” preparation for a jury trial takes many months. Every single piece of evidence is like a building block. The early investigation is like the”foundation.” Any missing bricks can be exploited by the insurance company lawyers and cause the entire structure to…
Continue readingOne of the reasons the personal injury team at ABRAMS LANDAU asks about clients’ Bankruptcy is because this is something that insurance defense lawyers will use against them. Experienced accident lawyers have seen cases dismissed where the innocent plaintiff failed to tell the Federal Bankruptcy Court about their potential or pending negligence claim. This potential…
Continue readingIt seems so obvious. You have been in a car accident. Your car is smashed, totaled, wrecked, busted. In addition to seeking prompt medical care, gathering evidence is important in the time after a car crash. Most people know to take pictures of their injuries, the scene of the accident and their car, truck, motorcycle…
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