This summer, Margaret Deng took an oath of citizenship and became a citizen of the United States. Her birth country is Sudan, Africa. This mother of 4 came to Douglas Landau for assistance with a workers’ comp claim. Mrs. Deng was disabled from her job as a sales associate as the result of an arm…
Continue readingThe Workers’ Compensation Act (§ 65.2-603) provides that, if medically necessary, the employer may be required to furnish durable medical equipment and modification of the employee’s home for handicap accessibility up to $25,000. A former employee of DRS-DDS (the Department of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Disability Services) sustained an injury to her lumbar…
Continue readingThe Virginia Workers Compensation Statute says the rehab personnel (as well as insurance adjusters) are entitled to “copies” of medical reports. “Copies” does not include verbal reports. It is Doug Landau’s position that they have no right to speak to the doctor, the nurses or the doctors’ staff. Yet the insurance company people try to…
Continue readingThe Herndon – Reston law firm of ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. has successfully settled another workers comp suicide case for a Florida family. Using favorable Virginia case law and Doug Landau’s own winning decision in the Elliott case, this Bulgarian family was able to at last get some compensation for their tragic loss. In a similar ruling, the…
Continue readingEven if the claimant’s doctor has not released him/her to go back to work, Doug Landau counsels his clients to put effort into job searching that may fit their current restrictions. If they do not find employment, there is at least a written record of their efforts as evidence that…
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