Doug Landau, shown here with long-time Reston Triathlon Board Member Chuck James, volunteered at the 2nd annual Reston Sprint Triathlon at Lake Newport Pool. The Herndon Reston area injury lawyer helped get athletes registered on Saturday. Raising thousands of dollars for Reston Interfaith made the effort rewarding on many levels. Doug will be racing tomorrow…
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On the evening of December 4, 2006, after working overtime, our client pulled into the dimly lit parking lot of the Defendant’s grocery store in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. A pothole (at least a foot-and-a-half wide) was between the space in which she parked and the handicap parking space next to it, near the sidewalk…
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This important concept explains both short and long term neurologic deficits in patients whose trauma did not produce either contusions, hemorrhages or lacerations sufficient to account for the deficits. Frequently, the latter lesions are minimal but the deficit is severe. Sometimes, notes Herndon Reston brain injury lawyer Doug Landau, there is a minimal laceration (cut)…
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When an injured victim of a crash is brought into an emergency room, x-rays are often ordered. However, Herndon Reston area brain injury lawyer Doug Landau notes that while such diagnostic testing, while good for showing broken bones and fractures, does not show many kinds of brain injury. For example, a cyclist or motorist injured…
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In the previous posting, brain injury lawyer Doug Landau listed Direct Effects of head trauma and brain injuries. In addition to those sometimes permanently disabling effects of an impact or blow involving the skull and brain, the Herndon Reston trial attorney notes that there are “Secondary Effect” which can also be quite devastating to the…
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