When a personal injury case settles, the Insurance Company wants a Release to be signed before the check is cashed so that they (and their insureds) will not get sued again on the same claim. When a case is filed in Court, and a settlement reached or verdict in favor of the injured plaintiff returned,…
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In addition to a lot of bar memberships, Doug pays a lot of dues and gives a lot of time to groups that may not be familiar to you. He does not join these organizations simply to “pad the resume.” He belongs because he believes that “it is important to combine forces so that injured…
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Our client was a guest at one of the Inns at Colonial Williamsburg. He went into bathroom in his hotel room and turned on the heatlamp. This was the original unit that was installed in the hotel in 1983. He sat down on the toilet. The hotel heat lamp heated to a critical point, broke…
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In another case, Doug Landau went to Henrico Circuit Court for the infant (a minor under the age of 18) settlement of another dog-attack case. Our now seven-year-old client was an invited guest at the defendant’s home for a Memorial Day weekend party. Within minutes of arrival, this two-year-old was attacked, pinned to the ground,…
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This summer, we had animal-attack cases pending in courts in Virginia, New Jersey, and Connecticut. At trial in a dog-attack case in New Jersey, we were able to convince the trial judge to allow evidence of prior and subsequent attacks on others in the neighborhood, despite strict liability statute and case law that said such…
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