How can you settle a Virginia Workers Compensation Claim AFTER all 500 weeks of wage loss comp have been paid? You can settle all or part of a workers compensation case. You can settle the wage loss and permanency part, which is also known as the “indemnity compensation.” You can also settle the medical benefits,…
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Doug Landau is shown here with preeminent Winchester workers comp lawyer Nick Parthemos and their wives after successfully settling a case on behalf of a young woman whose fingers were crushed in an industrial machine accident at the factory where she worked. Landau got the disabled worker under the protection of an Award for wage…
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During the recent hearing on a client’s theater scarring case, the judge noted that he would need to see the actual scars in controversy. The experienced Fairfax judge noted that while he had received pictures of the claimant’s permanent leg scars, he was mindful of a case where the original pictures did not show the…
Continue readingIn a word, “no.” For an injured worker to get a “Permanency Award,” there should be no painful medical testing, as the physicians observe and measure the scar sites. The doctors do not usually put the patient through range of motion or sensation testing when determinations about the extent of scarring are concerned. To get…
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Unlike other states, the Virginia Workers Compensation law does not include Awards for permanent injury to every part of an injured worker’s body. An employee hurt on the job in a compensable accident can get a permanency Award for a permanent injury to the thumb. The doctor may give a large rating to the thumb…
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