After receiving a call to help a construction worker injured at Dulles Airport (“IAD”), we brought his claim immediately and worked on getting his Child Support Arrearage straightened out. The reason Child Support is important in the context of workers compensation cases is that Child Support Orders are the only types of “IOUs” that can…
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During the cold winter months, many people go on holiday on a cruise ship. These vacations can result in wonderful, lifelong memories. They can also end up causing injury, disability and death due to the negligence or carelessness of the cruise ship crew or defects in the ship itself. Food poisoning cases have also been…
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In order to rest my wrists, I am taking a respite from posting. My family and I will be travelling to South America to see where my son spent a semester with “Global Quest.” We will be flying to Equador and the Galapagos Islands for vacation. Stay tuned for some wonderful and wild pictures !…
Continue readingThe Virginia Workers Compensation has issued new guidelines for what will constitute “Reasonable” Efforts to Look for Light Duty Work. No longer will 2 visits per week (as required by the Virginia Employment Commission to get V.E.C. Unemployment benefits) be sufficient. The value of marketing one’s residual capacity is critical to a workers’ comp claim…
Continue readingWorkers Compensation and Social Security Legal Assistant Dianna Meredith of ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., received a call of thanks today from a Workers Compensation client whose Virginia comp claim had been successfully settled for a lump sum of $150,000 almost a year ago. This West Virginia man was pleased to report that his Social Security Disability…
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