Unlike other states, the Virginia Workers Compensation law does not include Awards for permanent injury to every part of an injured worker’s body. An employee hurt on the job in a compensable accident can get a permanency Award for a permanent injury to the thumb. The doctor may give a large rating to the thumb…
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The Virginia law firm of ABRAMS LANDAU has won cases for scarring in states that allow Awards for “severe marked disfigurement.” In order to win, Doug Landau proves to the Workers Compensation judge three key elements. Landau demonstrates that the scarring is: (1) permanent; (2) marked, unsightly, severe; and (3) is directly related to the…
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Once again I have been asked to help with the New Judges Orientation by the Virginia Supreme Court. The mock trials presented to the “judges in training” are helpful in getting the new jurists ready for their jobs on the bench. I will be in Richmond for these Mock Trials the afternoon of Thursday, April…
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Negligent construction and unmended leaks in the windows can let moisture in to your house, allowing toxin-producing mold to grow and spread. A Loudoun jury recently awarded a family harmed by mold in their own home $4.75 million, among the largest awards in a mold case in Virginia. The defendant home construction company had not…
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Federal health officials found that there was prior salmonella contamination at the peanut butter factory where the tainted food was formulated. Internal tests at a Georgia peanut butter plant linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak revealed at least a dozen instances of salmonella contamination during 2007 and 2008. However, according to the Food and Drug…
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