Experienced Virginia workers Compensation attorney Doug Landau and his team are frequently asked why an insurance company is not paying medical bills when the treatment is related to the on the job entry, or by direct referral from an authorized doctor, or for reasonable care under the circumstances. With apologies to the singer MeatLoaf, two…
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How do you get paid? Doug Landau and the Team at ABRAMS LANDAU get this question a lot because most of the time he feels like people think they need to pay their attorney an hourly fee. That may be true of corporate lawyers, insurance defense lawyers and attorneys in other areas of the law.…
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Many permanently injured workers have had doctors find that they have reached “Maximum Medical Improvement” (“MMI”). A finding of Maximum Medical Improvement is required BEFORE a doctor can give a Permanent Partial Disability (“PPD”) rating. Under the law of Virginia, the District of Columbia & many other states, the findings of MMI and then a…
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Where can you try your personal injury case WITHOUT having to undergo interrogation, under oath, by an insurance company lawyer OR be “examined” by one of their hand-picked doctors? The answer is General District Court! With the increased jurisdictional limits of $50,000.00 and faster scheduling, taking an injury case t the General District…
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As the only Law Firm that requests clients, families, and even witnesses to come see us “in action,” it was gratifying to see several this month come to a Worker’s Compensation Hearing in Manassas. this case was unusual as the injured client was also the company’s owner! Because of the sensitive nature of their work,…
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