While many so-called personal injury lawyers “talk the talk,” very few really “walk the walk.” Few actually visit the scene of the crash, workplace accident or fatal injury. Few actually go to look at the official Court files on their clients’ cases. Few visit their clients’ homes. And few, if any, invite their clients and…
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Shown here is Senior Workers Compensation Legal Assistant Dianna Meredith at the witness stand where she testified on behalf of a client in a workers comp hearing this week. The insurance company had not paid for items in the original Award Order Doug Landau won for this family. This non- payment had been going on…
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Shown here are pictures of the front of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission’s Fairfax Hearings Office. You can see that construction has resulted in street disruption and fewer parking spaces. This is why is is imperative to get to your Hearing EARLY ! It is also why the ABRAMS LANDAU trial team urges clients, their…
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When Doug Landau’s law firm received word that a pending case in Florida would also need to be tried in Virginia, and that this fatal airplane crash had already generated boxes of documents, the ABRAMS LANDAU trial team set about to load materials into the firm’s computer system. This way, when the traveling trial lawyer…
Continue readingThe Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled February 10, 2009 in the case of Shenandoah Motors, Inc. v. Barbara J. Smith that when an injured worker is terminated for cause from a full duty job, they cannot come back later and seek partial disability compensation. The case applies a “termination for cause” defense which forever…
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