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When settling an on the job personal injury case, Workers Comp Lawyer Doug Landau advises, “don’t pay for stuff you don’t have to !”

Recently, an experienced personal injury lawyer sent me the following, “We are settling a third-party tort claim in which there is a workers’ comp lien.  I know that my client is responsible for paying back Temporary Total Disability (“TTD”) benefits, medical treatment, prescriptions and transportation costs.  But is my client responsible for paying back the…

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Employer’s Insurance Company cannot simply fail to pay an injured worker without first filing a Hearing Application, even if it believes it has overpaid !

The ABRAMS LANDAU trial team went to Richmond on behalf of a disabled client who was underpaid by the workers compensation insurance company. In a decision handed down this month in this multi-state plane crash case, the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission judge ruled that: An employer is not allowed to unilaterally stop payment of compensation…

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