Frequently, a Worker’s Compensation insurance company will hire a nurse case manager to get the treating doctor to release the employee back to work faster than the doctor might otherwise think prudent. Doctors are under pressure from these nurses and the insurance companies that pay their bills. Insurance companies are very good at delaying bills,…
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It’s one thing to believe you are (or your firm’s attorney is) a super lawyer, but it adds new meaning when you are officially named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers, the rating service for outstanding lawyers who “have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.” We think this pairs quite nicely with…
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The Herndon law firm Abrams Landau, Ltd. has in the past hired small planes and helicopter photographers for cases, especially to combat insurance defense counsel’s computer-generated evidence in premises liability cases like slip & fall, dog attack, latent defect, and animal bite lawsuits. Aerial photographs can be very effective evidence in personal injury, permanent disability…
Continue readingBecause they are so hard to win, many so-called “personal injury” law firms do not handle, and certainly do not go to court and try “slip and fall” or “trip and fall” cases. In these “premises liability claims, the injured victim must show “Notice” in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I am reminded of a particular…
Continue readingWith our last several cases involving unsafe drivers with limited insurance and assets, I am reaching out to all of our clients to review their personal insurance coverages and to make sure that they, and their loved ones, are protected this holiday season. In several cases, the harms were many hundreds of thousands of dollars,…
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