New parents take all sorts of precautions to keep cleansers away from small children because of the potential for harmful chemical burns, blindness, permanent scarring, and death. Similarly, adults try to handle caustic cleaning products carefully. However, there are instances where such cleansers are unsafely stored or “mixed up,” and these events can result in…
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Not necessarily, notes Loudoun County workers’ comp lawyer Doug Landau. The insurance company nurses are not assigned to your case to render treatment or therapy or administer medications. Instead, these nurses very often are assigned to your file to save the insurance company money by limiting medical care, influencing the doctors to choose less expensive…
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Can a worker whose fingers or toes are amputated because he or she could not read a machine’s instructions get workers’ compensation benefits? In workers’ comp cases, employers or their insurance company can win on the defense of “willful violation of a safety rule” only if they show the employee intended to break a known…
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your payday loans help Owning a car is a responsibility. And in Virginia, like many states, part of that responsibility entails maintaining the vehicle in safe working order. How does the Commonwealth make sure the cars on its roads are safe? One way is by requiring an annual safety inspection for all vehicles registered in…
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If you buy a new appliance, car, computer, or really almost any household device, your new purchase comes with a warranty against product defects. But what about artificial joints? A hip? A knee? Hip and knee replacements are somewhat commonplace, yet only one joint manufacturer even offers a warranty, but only for one of…
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