I try to review a client’s official file at the VWC early on in the case. I do that because at ABRAMS LANDAU, we want to build a strong foundation to the claim. Too many lawyers make the mistake of assuming they know what the judge is looking at or looking for – a BIG…
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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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On the 12th of August, 2008, Mr. George Milton Piper passed away. We still do not know the exact details of his untimely demise. We do know he was at work, at Chemung Contracting in Gainesville, located at 7201 Rail Line Court – near George Mason University, off of University Blvd. At the time, he…
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Doug Landau and several of his Maccabiah teammates participated in the 3rd annual DC Nations Triathlon that raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma societies. Doug Landau has represented people who have become disabled due o these terrible diseases before he Social Security Administration. This multisport race in the Nation’s Capitol took participants past many…
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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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