Why doesn’t the defendant get to present a medical expert at trial? The short answer is the insurance company’s defense lawyers are always allowed to have a medical expert examine an injured Plaintiff once the lawsuit has been filed. They can also have a doctor do what is called a “medical records review” to rebut…
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While the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act is supposed to be a “No Fault” statutory system to help injured employees, there are limits to what is covered. If an employee chooses not to wear a seat belt in the company truck he was driving, he cannot get workers’ comp benefits for injuries suffered in a car…
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If an accident victim, who is not employed because they are caring for their children full time, be reimbursed for more than just their medical bills? When visiting friends after court in Alexandria, Virginia last month, car accident attorney Doug Landau was asked to drop by and help answer questions about some complex cases from…
Continue readingWhen a small car failed to stop at a traffic light and smashed into the back of a big box truck at high speed, no one foresaw the long-term ramifications to the driver who was rear-ended. The crash occurred three years ago, the occupants of the small car died on the scene and the driver…
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“There is no magic formula for car crash injury cases,” notes lawyer Doug Landau of the Herndon, Virginia law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd. “If there was, then the insurance companies would simply feed a case into a computer that would spit out a number that the injured victim would be stuck with. But that is…
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