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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A new lawyer is about to file suit on behalf of an injured guest who had slipped and fallen at an “Inn & Suites Hotel.” This hotel has the signs and logo of a national chain, and appears to be run by a local franchisee. However the property is owned by “Company A”, the facility…
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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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When a George Mason University student working at a big box retail store had his foot run over by a co-worker operating a forklift, he was not allowed to bring a negligence case for all of his losses. That is because Virginia law does not allow one coworker to sue another when the employer. This…
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