Unlike other states, the Virginia Workers Compensation law does not include Awards for permanent injury to every part of an injured worker’s body. An employee hurt on the job in a compensable accident can get a permanency Award for a permanent injury to the thumb. The doctor may give a large rating to the thumb…
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This afternoon Doug Landau once again helped out a partner at the Reston Virginia law firm of Dain, Walker, Sobhani & Nicoli with questions about one of their personal injury cases. The ABRAMS LANDAU trial lawyer is regularly called by experienced lawyers from all over Northern Virginia to assist them and their disabled clients. Landau…
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Even firms that specialize in personal injury cases find that they need help with the Workers Compensation and/or Social Security Disability claims that an injured client may also be able to bring. Since most firms do not handle these State and Federal government “administrative claims,” they call upon ABRAMS LANDAU to assist in catastrophic and…
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In a previous post, I wrote about meeting Federal Workers Compensation specialist Stephen Scavuzzo at his magnificent Tysons Corner office. Today attorney Scavuzzo was kind enough to spend some time at ABRAMS LANAU, Ltd. and teach us about the largely misunderstood world of Federal Government Comp claims. One of the good things about what I…
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All clothing will burn given enough heat or exposure to flames. For example, in a case handled successfully by Doug Landau on behalf of a “Disney on Ice” pyrotechnical engineer, his clothing caught fire because as he attempted to destroy plastic explosives in the Texas dessert, not because of any defect in his garments. We…
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