Recent tracking of our clients demonstrates what we have known for generations: our clients come to us on the recommendations of friends, family, neighbors, their doctors, lawyers and other professionals. That is one of the reasons we donot advertise. Not in the yellow pages. Not on TV. Not in thenewspaper. Not on the Internet. We…
Continue readingABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. recently won a Social Security Disability Income case for a client whose 500 weeks of workers compensation benefits had been paid and whose wage loss file had been closed by the insurance company and the government. Scheduled to appear before an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) in Baltimore, Maryland, our young client had…
Continue readingVirginia’s injured workers are being short-changed every day. The reason is that their compensation rates are being miscalculated or determined with incomplete information. Workers compensation wage loss benefit (and permanent injury) rates are supposed to be based upon what the employee got pre-injury. Instead, Virginia workers are being short-changed on the front end (the calculation…
Continue readingMany of my clients are worried about having surgery on their neck or back. Much of the anxiety is caused by not knowing what exactly will happen. Doctors are not always able to show patients what they intend to do, and they are often busy, with limited time for questions by family members. Unlike Mr.…
Continue readingAt a recent medico-legal program, Doug Landau participated in the discussion of back and neck pain after an accident. When there is a herniated disc that presses on the spinal cord or nerve root, one can actually see the anatomical cause of the pain on an MRI. When the disc material or fragment that has…
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