An injured plaintiff may be awarded a structured settlement for personal injuries or sickness suffered due to no fault of his or her own. Structured settlements are periodic payments designed to protect at-risk victims from spending all of the award money at once. It is not uncommon for purchasing companies to prey on disabled and/or…
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Chemicals at work can cause injury, but legal time limits and other procedural hurdles can prevent disabled workers and their families from receiving workers compensation benefits according to Virginia injury and occupational disease lawyer Doug Landau of Herndon’s ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd.
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At ABRAMS LANDAU, we “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk.” We visited with our 21 year old spine-injured client and his family in Winchester, Virginia. It was clear that this young man, whose spine was crushed in a rollover accident, had difficulty getting in and out of his rented home. There were…
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The Philadelphia Business Journal reported that the Pennsylvania-based company filed for bankruptcy in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. In December, Wentworth laid off 120 of its 200 employees and closed its Las Vegas office. J.G. Wentworth, founded in 1991, is owned by New York-based JLL Partners and buys structured settlements, annuities and life…
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Herndon Lawyer Doug Landau was able to help the family of a worker who was killed in a car crash in the course and scope of his employment. Three generations of this Virginia family met with the legal team at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. The decedent was a 47-year-old Virginia laborer who was fatally injured in…
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