Workers Comp benefits for unborn child of Construction worker repairing 9/11 damage killed by falling girder

Yesterday I introduced the true story of our client who was killed by a falling girder at the Pentagon.  We won an Award from the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission for benefits as the result of this fatal accident.  Funeral and burial expenses were paid and weekly benefits were paid to his teenaged daughter in Colorado.  However, the deceased worker left behind a baby who was born 3 months later !

This tragic case was brought in Fairfax by the Herndon Reston area injury firm Abrams Landau, and the judge’s ruling correctly granted benefits to BOTH of this worker’s daughters.  The older daughter received the full workers compensation benefit until her step-sister was born, at which time they each would receive half of the weekly payment.  Then, when the older sister turned 18, her share would end, unless she was in college or some other full time educational program.  The baby daughter has received over $110,000, and continues to receive checks as the result of the death of the father she never knew.  This is another of the many tragic true stories from that fateful day that touched all of us at Abrams Landau, Ltd.