When do late Worker’s Compensation checks become late? Generally, Worker’s Compensation payments for Total Temporary (TT), Temporary Partial (TP), and Permanent Partial Disability (PPD), are supposed to be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. If the employee did not receive payment in that manner prior to the workplace injury, they would be considered an exception as per…
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The Virginia Workers Compensation Inn of Court Seminar took place at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Richmond last month. Full Commissioners Ferrell Newman and Wesley Marshall updated the best lawyers in Virginia as to current cases, laws and procedures involving injured workers in the Commonwealth. According to the Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Virginia just got its 10th…
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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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Herndon lawyer Doug Landau has been a long-time supporter of public school music programs. That’s why he was pleased to donate a copy of the complete symphonic band score of Frederick Handel’s famous “Water Music” to Rachel Carson Middle School, located just down the road from the Landau Law Shop. Landau is proud of his…
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