What happens when one injury causes another injury? What if you hurt one side of your body and then something goes wrong on the other side? And what the heck is a “compensable consequence?” We all know what is meant when someone tells us that they have injured their left leg and they are “favoring…
Continue readingThe Virginia Court of Appeals reviewed conflicting case law to decide whether a layoff would qualify an injured courthouse employee to workers compensation wage loss benefits. The facts of the case are that the claimant, who worked in a light-duty capacity on a courthouse custodial staff after a work-related injury, was laid off because her…
Continue readingWhen a small car failed to stop at a traffic light and smashed into the back of a big box truck at high speed, no one foresaw the long-term ramifications to the driver who was rear-ended. The crash occurred three years ago, the occupants of the small car died on the scene and the driver…
Continue readingCan I get a permanency rating before I get my hip, knee or shoulder replacement? The short answer is “yes.” Experienced workers compensation lawyer Doug Landau notes that if an injured worker had a leg amputation, even with a prosthetic device, they still have had a 100% loss of the limb. Therefore, they should get…
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Unlike a car crash or other accidental injury case, Virginia Workers’ Compensation cases have no absolute settlement date. In other words, a workers’ compensation case in Virginia and Washington, D.C. can go on for years and even decades. At the Abrams Landau law office, we have some files that are nearing three decades old for…
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