In 2018, there were over 4.3 billion passengers worldwide on commercial airlines and over 100,000 flights per day. That’s a lot of people in the air trusting airlines to get them safely from one place to another! Airlines are responsible for ensuring that passengers are safe from preventable injuries and they may be at least…
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The Abrams Landau law office–located right at the corner of Herndon’s historic district–is not your typical office building. It is a 100-year-old house that we’ve tried our best to make in to not only a professional law office but also a home. We want our clients and their families to feel comfortable, secure and cared…
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In order to receive workers comp benefits under Virginia law, a disabled worker must prove that they sustained a sudden injury by accident. But what does this mean exactly? Does an injured worker have to know the exact time of their injury? What if the employee is doing several activities over and over again? Does…
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The rules of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (“VWC”) require injuries on-the-job to have a specific event. If the disabled worker cannot point to the particular event that caused their injury, the workers comp insurance companies are quick to deny their claims and force them to take their cases to court. In a case recently…
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Why do we give our clients homework? Because everyone at Abrams Landau, Ltd. likes to be AHEAD of deadlines—and not playing “catch-up”—we will give our clients’ homework in nearly every single injury, workers’ comp and disability case. We have found that rather than mailing, faxing or sending questions to doctors electronically, if the client hand…
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