The Virginia Workers Compensation has issued new guidelines for what will constitute “Reasonable” Efforts to Look for Light Duty Work. No longer will 2 visits per week (as required by the Virginia Employment Commission to get V.E.C. Unemployment benefits) be sufficient. The value of marketing one’s residual capacity is critical to a workers’ comp claim…
Continue readingWorkers Compensation and Social Security Legal Assistant Dianna Meredith of ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., received a call of thanks today from a Workers Compensation client whose Virginia comp claim had been successfully settled for a lump sum of $150,000 almost a year ago. This West Virginia man was pleased to report that his Social Security Disability…
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Many people are burned by flammable garments each year. Some victims of these defective products are “burned” a second time, when they entrust their cases to lawyers who advertise, but do not know what they are doing. One of the ways these lawyers can ruin a meritorious “Flammability case” is by failing to preserve the…
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Several clients have asked what their family members can do while they are having their deposition at our office or working on answering Interrogatories for their cases. There are several fun and interesting things to do, all within walking distance of the “Landau Law Shop.” One of the most popular is walking to Great Harvest…
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Shown here are the x-ray machinery from one of our state-of-the-art local hospitals. These machines can show fractures and de-mineralized bone. The radiographic films can show such things as loss of disc height and the lordotic curve in cases involving injury to the back, neck and spine. However, they cannot “spot” all traumatic injuries from…
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