The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) is an insurance company-funded organization which, for years, has been reporting that doctors in the Maryland workers’ comp system were dispensing 40% of all workers’ comp prescriptions, and were capturing 55% of all dollars paid for these prescriptions. This, according to WCRI, was driving up costs in the workers’…
Continue readingIn a recent case in which a security guard fell backwards when she sat on a low brick wall at her workplace, the Court of Appeals of Virginia found that she cannot show her accident was causally related to any actual risk at work. The Virginia Court of Appeals reversed a workers’ comp Award for…
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“Just because you are injured at work does not mean that your workplace accident will be covered by your employer’s Workers’ Comp insurance,” notes Doug Landau of the Herndon Law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd. The Commonwealth of Virginia adheres to the actual risk test to determine whether or not an injury arises out of…
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While the Virginia Workers’ Compensation law does not require an injured worker to show negligence or fault, it is not a complete no-fault system. An injured worker in the Commonwealth does not have to show that someone else is to blame for his or her disability from work, but not every single workplace accident is…
Continue readingWhat Should You Do if You are Injured While Working Abroad? The Abrams Landau team had an interesting case in which our client was: An Australian National Skating Champion, Performing in the “High School Musical,” Working for “Disney on Ice,” (Feld Productions), which is part of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus group, out…
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