There is nothing like sharing good news and making for a happier ending to a story that often has a sad start. Our clients are permanently injured and disabled when they come to us for legal help. We cannot turn back the clocks and undue their pain, emotional distress and inconvenience. However, we can, and…
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Doug Landau is shown here with preeminent Winchester workers comp lawyer Nick Parthemos and their wives after successfully settling a case on behalf of a young woman whose fingers were crushed in an industrial machine accident at the factory where she worked. Landau got the disabled worker under the protection of an Award for wage…
Continue readingNigel Haskett was working at a McDonald’s last August when he interceded to stop a man who was beating a woman in the restaurant. The assailant, later identified as Perry Kennon, went outside. Haskett also stepped outside and stood at the door to keep Kennon from re-entering the restaurant. Kennon retrieved a gun from his…
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Sometimes more than one recovery may be had from the same tragic accident. In a case handled by my late friend Bob Arthur, a self-employed structural engineer fell from a ladder and broke his leg. The injured plaintiff brought suit against the owner of business for failure to provide ordinary care in providing and holding…
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During the recent hearing on a client’s theater scarring case, the judge noted that he would need to see the actual scars in controversy. The experienced Fairfax judge noted that while he had received pictures of the claimant’s permanent leg scars, he was mindful of a case where the original pictures did not show the…
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