Most people may assume that if their doctors, therapists or other health care professionals write that they are “disabled from work,” they should automatically win their Social Security Disability (“SSDI”) case right off the bat. “Most people, unfortunately, are wrong,” notes Herndon disability lawyer Doug Landau, “as the Federal Government does not simply accept conclusory…
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In an effort to get the “Age Load” of pending DC cases under 2 years, several of the Social Security Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) met with members of the Abrams Landau disability trial team as well as other members of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Social Security section. The invitation for a “Bench Bar Dialog with…
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After a brian injury, getting through the day can be difficult. However, when a brain-injured victim must also prepare for Court, the stress adds to an already overwhelming metabolic load that can reverse gains made in therapy and at home. That is why when several cases were set for Court this week, the Herndon law…
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Expert witnesses for the Federal Government are to be expected at Social Security Disability Hearings. However, when the Judge’s own hired professional agrees that the unemployed worker is “disabled,” chances are that a “Fully Favorable” opinion will be written by the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”). In a Social Security case tried by Doug Landau in…
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It is becoming harder and harder to win Social Security Disability cases with just the testimony of a disabled worker, his or her family, and other lay witnesses. So what can a claimant do in order to show a Federal Administrative Law Judge the extent of his or her disabling conditions ? The short answer,…
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