Category Archives: Workers Compensation

We don’t make this up – Some Insurance Company Vocational Rehabilitation Vendors Will Try ANYTHING to Place Disabled Workers To End their Compensation Benefits, story #2

At ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., every time we think we have heard the most outrageous story about what an insurance company’s vocational rehabilitation vendor will do, we are surprised with a new story, such as this… Story #2 The injured worker’s treating neurosurgeon recommended a multi level cervical fusion for the claimant, but said his patient…

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We don’t make this up – Some Insurance Company Vocational Rehabilitation Vendors Will Try ANYTHING to Place Disabled Workers To End their Compensation Benefits

Sometimes truth is better than fiction.  These two tales were sent to us by Virginia trial lawyers concerning the troubling tactics taken by Vocational Rehabilitation “specialists” hired by the insurance company to work on their disabled client: Story #1: Insurance Company Vocational Rehabilitation Vendor prepares resume for claimant.  The claimant has only a 7th grade…

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MARKETING – It’s not a Defense to a workers compensation claim; it’s a necessary part of the injured worker’s case

Doug Landau had the opportunity to meet with Deputy Commissioner Tabb a fortnight ago in Richmond. Judge Tabb hears cases throughout the Commonwealth, and has issued opinions in ABRAMS LANDAU clients’ cases in Manassas, Fairfax and Stafford. At the Advanced Workers Comp Retreat, Deputy Commissioner Tabb, of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission advised claimant’s lawyers:…

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