The Workers’ Compensation Act (§ 65.2-603) provides that, if medically necessary, the employer may be required to furnish durable medical equipment and modification of the employee’s home for handicap accessibility up to $25,000. A former employee of DRS-DDS (the Department of Rehabilitation Services and the Department of Disability Services) sustained an injury to her lumbar…
Continue readingAlthough the plaintiff walked away from a fender-bender automobile accident with relatively minor injuries and no apparent head trauma, his family knew in the months following the crash that something was wrong. When the family’s attorneys took what they thought was a relatively simple case and started talking to doctors, they discovered the matter was…
Continue readingA 21-year-old college student who dreamed of becoming a teacher was in an accident with the Defendants’ truck. She claimed $2,400,000 in medical expenses and lost wages as well as traumatic brain injury. But pictures on her MySpace page showing her at parties after the accident told a different story to the jury. Her MySpace…
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Here’s a first. A closed head auto injury case client represented by another member of AAJ was once incarcerated in Connecticut. He was a former inmate of the Conn Department of Corrections and was involved in an accident in Florida. The State of Connecticut now asserts a “lien” (like an “I.O.U.”) for all costs of…
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Doug Landau and Michigan trial lawyer Jules Olsman teamed up to help a father and a daughter whose lives were devastated by a multi-vehicle crash caused by a teenaged driver in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Herndon Reston area injury lawyer was able to effect a settlement for the father, who suffered a broken leg and hip.…
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