At an August 6th Social Security Disability Hearing in Washington, D.C., our client was told that she would prevail then and there. The written decision was written September 4th. Our client had several severe disabling conditions. However, she did “not have an impairment or combination of impairments that meets or medically equals one of the…
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In other posts, we have shown pictures of the inside and outside of Hearing offices used by the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission and Trial Courts. However, the Federal Government does not usually allow us to take cameras into the court rooms. In this post we hope to take some of the mystery out of disability…
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Herndon-Reston Virginia injury lawyer Doug Landau and two dozen other experienced disability lawyers attended a special presentation by Commissioner William Dudley, Jr. today. The Commissioner is one of only 3 Full Commissioners at the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (“VWC”) headquarters in Richmond. While he has over two decades of experience trying cases on behalf of…
Continue readingA recent note to the Virginia Trial Lawyers Workers Compensation section members stated, “the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission’s interpretation of ‘reasonable efforts’ is unreasonable.” Recent rulings against Virginia’s injured workers
Continue readingHerndon Injury Lawyer Doug Landau reminds clients, prospective clients and other attorneys weekly, that in Virginia, an injured employee has a duty to “market” his or her residual work capacity. The law only says that such “marketing efforts” must be “reasonable.” And that is where things get tricky for the unwary…The Full Commission recently ruled…
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