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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HINT: The SAME THING as its Wall Street investors ! While preparing the first Fen-Phen diet drug cases for trial in the Circuit Court of Alexandria, Doug Landau was stunned to learn that when American Hope Products Corporation put up BILLIONS of dollars to settle the products liability cases of thousands of women whose hearts…
Continue readingGeneral District Court Inclement Weather Policy (Fairfax County, Town of Herndon, Town of Vienna, and City of Fairfax) The General District Court rarely closes due to inclement weather. Interested parties should listen to television and radio announcements to specifically state that the Fairfax County General District Court is closed. If it is announced that Fairfax County Government offices (not…
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your payday loans help Owning a car is a responsibility. And in Virginia, like many states, part of that responsibility entails maintaining the vehicle in safe working order. How does the Commonwealth make sure the cars on its roads are safe? One way is by requiring an annual safety inspection for all vehicles registered in…
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