The Virginia Workers Compensation law generally does not allow lawsuits between co-workers, and it definitely protects employers from any responsibility for workplace injury claims, except in the case of sexual assaults. However, Connecticut law allows lawsuits against coworkers for automobile related claims, and against the employer for willful and wanton misconduct, or where the negligence…
Continue readingWe have all seen scenes from depositions. The story in the recent hit movie “The Social Network” is told in large part through the FaceBook founder’s disastrous deposition testimony. The process of filing a lawsuit and seeing it all the way through trial after a car crash, truck accident or slip and fall can at…
Continue readingInterested in both the local economy as well as the national economy, updates from our elected representatives are particularly curious. The Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly representing Herndon, Oak Hill, and Sterling wrote me this month to remind me that “we remain the most business friendly state in America.” However, if your business is…
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Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU are told that they can be reimbursed for trips to the doctors, physical therapists, radiologists, for their on the job injuries. Our disabled workers compensation clients then want to know how they submit this “expense” for payment, because, unlike the medical expenses, their are no “bills” for trips they take…
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A “presumption is a legal term which indicates that a judge will “presume” a fact in evidence, unless or until other facts are introduced to show that such evidence is not to be presumed. For example, in fatal on the job accident cases, if the victim is found at a place, time & manner consistent…
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