Sometimes injured workers stay on the job until their conditions deteriorate so badly that they not only qualify for state Workers’ Comp benefits, but Federal Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as well. Recently, Herndon, Virginia disability lawyer Doug Landau won Federal benefits for a 52-year-old mother of three whose work history was limited to such jobs…
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Just because you cannot do your old job, because of your workplace injury, does not mean that your comp checks keep coming automatically. If you are partially disabled and receiving workers’ compensation benefits, it is important to understand that in order to receive continued workers’ comp benefits, you must fulfill the duty to “market.” Only…
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“The majority of my Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) clients who are seeking benefits before they hit their 60th birthday are simply asking to get their own money earlier than retirement age. This is the money that they have set aside from their pay checks all the years that they were working. It is their…
Continue readingAt ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau is often asked why he hires outside private investigators. Keeping the job of investigating separate from the work performed by the legal team is important because it prevents the waters from being muddied when it comes to witnesses, evidence, etc. If lawyer Landau did the “gumshoe’s”…
Continue readingAre you angered when you see the driver in the next lane texting? What you should be is scared! Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau knows that texting drivers are a hazard to us all. In Huntsville, Alabama this past summer, a college student from Texas was texting while driving. His truck plunged off of a…
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