Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau was recently contacted by a fellow lawyer in New Jersey. Landau’s NJ colleague is representing a widow whose husband, a cook in a restaurant, was found unconscious in the basement of the restaurant after apparently falling from a ladder located below a trap door in the kitchen. The man died…
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Earlier this year, we posted about an NPR series condemning our nation’s workers’ comp system. A day after that ProPublica/NPR story hit the airwaves, the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a report that agrees with much of the criticisms. The OSHA report says that changes in workers’ compensation have made it…
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is investigating the death of a SeaWorld Orlando killer whale trainer. An autopsy showed that the veteran sea mammal trainer likely died of multiple traumatic injuries and drowning, according to the Orange County Medical Examiner. How the park handled previous whale attacks will also be a part of…
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