Most retail shopping stores have surveillance cameras. Video cameras “watch” areas where money changes hands. Both high-end and discount stores also have cameras posted at many locations where people enter and exit the building. These retail establishments have cameras to make sure there’s no “shrinkage”. Retailers are afraid of shrinkage — the theft of merchandise…
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Because Virginia Workers’ Compensation (WC) laws require some increased risk arising out of employment, when an employee twists an ankle, among the early questions that must be asked are (1) whether or not the worker was carrying anything; and (2) whether or not the surface was in any way uneven or “disturbed”. If the injured…
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After a crash in a mall parking lot or on private property, to whom do you turn to get an official accident report? Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau has been told by a number of clients that county, city, and state police will not investigate a client’s crash because it is on private property. Likewise,…
Continue readingWorkers’ Compensation recipients who settled their cases since 2001 have had to set aside money and/or make provisions for future medical care payments if they have also been receiving Federal Medicare benefits. In the context of an on-the-job injury or disease claim, when a workers’ comp claimant settled their claim, and the settlement included money…
Continue readingWhat would you think if you paid a company to do a job and later discovered that company subcontracted some of the work out to another company which was owned by the same owner? And furthermore that the subcontracted services (for which you were directly billed) could have been performed by another company for a…
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