When Workers Compensation claims are filed by the team at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd., they are sent to the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission Commission (“VWC”) headquarters in Richmond. The VWC headquarters has the Clerk’s Office, paper files, offices for a number of the judges (called “Deputy Commissioners”) and Hearing rooms. Shown here is the infamous “Sponge…
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This summer, Margaret Deng took an oath of citizenship and became a citizen of the United States. Her birth country is Sudan, Africa. This mother of 4 came to Douglas Landau for assistance with a workers’ comp claim. Mrs. Deng was disabled from her job as a sales associate as the result of an arm…
Continue readingThe Virginia Workers Compensation Statute says the rehab personnel (as well as insurance adjusters) are entitled to “copies” of medical reports. “Copies” does not include verbal reports. It is Doug Landau’s position that they have no right to speak to the doctor, the nurses or the doctors’ staff. Yet the insurance company people try to…
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Doug Landau and Michigan trial lawyer Jules Olsman teamed up to help a father and a daughter whose lives were devastated by a multi-vehicle crash caused by a teenaged driver in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Herndon Reston area injury lawyer was able to effect a settlement for the father, who suffered a broken leg and hip.…
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Shown with the Philadelphia skyline in the background, Doug and his wife are shown during a reception at the annual AAJ Convention. The Herndon Reston area injury and disability lawyer got to visit some of the sights in the evenings after most of the lectures and demonstrations had concluded. One particular highlight was the new,…
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