What if you are disabled and unable to work? You would file for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) benefits. Sounds simple enough. Now let us consider another – more complicated – question. What if there was a treatment for your disability which would allow you to work, BUT you cannot afford that treatment? Can your…
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The details in this case are hard to believe. It would stand to reason that if a person is legally blind, a claim for Social Security disability benefits would be a slam dunk. But in this case, that is not what happened. Instead, in the case of this 59-year old, wage earning Georgia woman whose…
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Large verdicts in catastrophic cases do not always “stick.” While the popular press likes to report our big number trials, the public does not realize that these extraordinary results are often taken away from deserving Plaintiffs or hung up on appeals for years. The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a $41 million judgment for a…
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Clients of the Herndon- Reston area ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. have been receiving a special attachment to the Hearing Notices. It comes from Ann Beverly, the Ombudsman, an concerns the Commission’s FREE “MEDIATION” services. It states: Mediation is an informal and voluntary process in which 2 or more people, have differing interests, work together with the…
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On Thursday, March 13, 2008, Reston-Herndon, Virginia lawyer Doug Landau presented the tragic case of a motor cycle passenger who was struck by a motorist while traveling with friends. This 36-year-old woman was wearing her helmut, yet suffered traumatic brain injury (“TBI”) which has left her permanently disabled and in need of constant care. This…
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