‘Catch 22’: Price of doing well is more work elsewhere By Peter Vieth” from March 24, 2008 https://valawyersweekly.com/archive.cfm?recid=433388 Most Virginia Social Security disability claimants and their attorneys have avoided the long hearing delays that recently have plagued other areas of the country. Claimants in Northern Virginia, however, often wait a year or more for their…
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This just in on the Trial lawyers listServ from our friend Dick Thomas, esteemed Roanoke Virginia Workers Comp lawyer: We just got a review opinion , written by Commissioner Dudley, reversing the deputy commissioner and awarding benefits. Claimant had a series of injuries over the years, and had bilateral degenerative disease of the hips. In…
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Clients of the Herndon- Reston area ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. have been receiving a special attachment to the Hearing Notices. It comes from Ann Beverly, the Ombudsman, an concerns the Commission’s FREE “MEDIATION” services. It states: Mediation is an informal and voluntary process in which 2 or more people, have differing interests, work together with the…
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“Exhumation Autopsy” and “Spoliation of Evidence” were the accusations against Doug Landau’s client for committing suicide ! In other words, the defense lawyer wanted permission to dig this woman’s body up, and have an autopsy performed ! It’s as though he thought he was on “CSI” ! He then accused this Bulgarian family of circus…
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Every time the trial team at the Reston-Herndon area law firm of ABRAMS LANDAU think we have seen the lowest behavior that an insurance defense lawyer will go to deny or derail a meritorious claim, we are saddened to see even worse behavior. In a case that will be reported in Lawyers Weekly soon, our…
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