Workers’ Compensation weekly payments under Virginia end after 500 weeks. It does not matter if these payments are for only partial wage loss, permanent impairment, or even amputation. However weekly payments from the workers’ compensation insurance company are paid, the 500-week limit is an artificial ceiling that really hurts younger, injured workers and the families…
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Having represented truck drivers attacked, shot and injured at gas stations, Herndon Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau was particularly interested in the Federal Court’s September 9, 2020 opinion in the case of Mullins v. Harco National Insurance Co. The injured victim pulled into the truck fueling station before sunrise, and was assaulted by the Defendant commercial truck driver who…
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In one of our case’s we previously reported on in our 12/2/2019 blog post, the defendants appealed a Manassas judge’s August 2019 Opinion. The judge found that the victim’s post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was causally related to his compensable injury by accident, and that the claimant was entitled to weekly Temporary Total Disability (TTD) wage…
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“If I learn just one thing at a seminar or Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) program that helps me with a difficult case or two, then my investment in tuition, airfare and hotel are worth it,” often notes Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau. Recently, lawyer Landau was invited to an elite gathering of lawyers by the…
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With fewer cars on the highways and interstates, some motorists are now driving at reckless speeds. Having traveled up to New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut, and down to Richmond, Virginia, multi-state lawyer Doug Landau has seen cars and trucks flying by on both sides. Used to traveling up and down the East Coast…
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