When a Defendant’s Insurance Company cannot defeat a negligence claim they will often attack the claims for harms and losses by hiring a doctor to do their bidding. These “hired guns” derive a large part of their incomes from doing reports for insurance companies and testifying against injured car crash and dog attack victims in…
Continue readingMost Social Security Disability Income (“SSDI”) applicants are surprised to find that the Federal Government will use their tax dollars to hire expert witnesses to testify against them at their hearings. While these can be medical doctors, psychiatric specialists and Ph.Ds, ABRAMS LANDAU disability lawyer Doug Landau usually sees a “Vocational Expert” (“VE”) on the…
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Depositions are where lawyers ask witnesses or parties to a lawsuit questions, under oath, for use in pre-trial discovery or for later use at trial. They are important to get the injured plaintiff’s story, so they cannot change it later, or make the negligent defendant driver explain why he did not follow the rules and…
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Clients and counsel have often asked me, “What’s in the small building you own next door ?” When the main building (known in the past as “Powell’s boarding house”) was purchased by Mr. Barron, it was uninhabitable. So he built the smaller structure to live in until the house at 865 Station Street (our original…
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After Doug Landau donated coloring books to the “Bike 2 Work” festival, the Smith Mountain Lake Triathlon and the Giant Acorn festival in Bumpass, Spotsylvania, Virginia, he brought these bicycle safety booklets for kids to the Herndon Depot Museum. Next time you visit us at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., please visit the Depot Museum. A train…
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