With international trade and political tensions making headlines again, many people are wondering how global events, like new tariffs or import restrictions, might impact their day-to-day lives. At ABRAMS LANDAU, we’ve even had clients ask if tariffs could affect their personal injury or workers’ compensation case. While it may sound surprising, the answer is yes.…
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The insurance industry is in the business of “Risk Management.” They people who work in the claims departments do not want to make decisions on their own, take risks and look foolish by paying out too much money in cases where the injured worker is not disabled, incapable of working at a light duty job…
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Experienced Virginia workers Compensation attorney Doug Landau and his team are frequently asked why an insurance company is not paying medical bills when the treatment is related to the on the job entry, or by direct referral from an authorized doctor, or for reasonable care under the circumstances. With apologies to the singer MeatLoaf, two…
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How do you get paid? Doug Landau and the Team at ABRAMS LANDAU get this question a lot because most of the time he feels like people think they need to pay their attorney an hourly fee. That may be true of corporate lawyers, insurance defense lawyers and attorneys in other areas of the law.…
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Many permanently injured workers have had doctors find that they have reached “Maximum Medical Improvement” (“MMI”). A finding of Maximum Medical Improvement is required BEFORE a doctor can give a Permanent Partial Disability (“PPD”) rating. Under the law of Virginia, the District of Columbia & many other states, the findings of MMI and then a…
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