While the Virginia Workers Compensation law is a “no fault” system, such that negligence or clumsiness does not matter, according to Herndon Reston area injury and disability lawyer Doug Landau of ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., there are three instances where the injured worker can still lose. Where a worker is injured or killed because they were…
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When Workers Compensation claims are filed by the team at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., they are sent to the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission Commission (“VWC”) headquarters in Richmond. The VWC headquarters has the Clerk’s Office, paper files, offices for a number of the judges (called “Deputy Commissioners”) and Hearing rooms. Shown here is the infamous “Sponge…
Continue readingIn many slip and fall cases, car and motorcycle crashes and boating accidents, weather is a factor. At ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., we often need to determine the weather conditions at, and just prior to, the time of the accident. For example, in slip and fall cases, if it is still snowing, raining or hailing, it…
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At an August 6th Social Security Disability Hearing in Washington, D.C., our client was told that she would prevail then and there. The written decision was written September 4th. Our client had several severe disabling conditions. However, she did “not have an impairment or combination of impairments that meets or medically equals one of the…
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In other posts, we have shown pictures of the inside and outside of Hearing offices used by the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission and Trial Courts. However, the Federal Government does not usually allow us to take cameras into the court rooms. In this post we hope to take some of the mystery out of disability…
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