In workers compensation cases, even experienced lawyers make the mistake of not including perks (fringe benefits) in the calculation of the injured workers average weekly wage. Perks such as; housing, transportation, food, uniforms, etc. can, and often do have a very real value to the employee. In Virginia, such things as health, disability and life…
Continue readingNo one at the Landau Law Shop will ever forget the attacks of 9/11. The deaths caused by the terrorists continued long after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Our client was a highly skilled welder with top security clearance. He volunteered to fly to the Pentagon to repair the damage caused by the terrorist attack.…
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The Fourth of July started off with a bang for some Northwest Corner residents — the bang of a starter’s gun at the annual Run-Around-the-Lake. Well, actually there wasn’t a gun. That would have been too noisy for what has to be one of the quietest races in the world. What started some 20 years…
Continue readingWorking in a car auction house can be dangerous. An ABRAMS LANDAU client was able to get a substantial workers comp settlement after having her legs crushed as she was helping to prepare a vehicle for sale. The claimant was an Auction Company’s employee who suffered severe crush injury to her legs when another employee…
Continue readingEven in the best of retail stores, accidents can happen. Doug Landau and the ABRAMS LANDAU team was able to help a Nordstrom’s saleswoman who was injured when a glass wine bucket shattered, deeply cutting her left wrist and right thigh. She required 20 stitches and sustained nerve and tendon damage. Under the workers compensation…
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