Workplace Injuries

• Come See Real Trials, Hearings, Cases and Races

  Doug Landau | February 11, 2012 5:53 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Call us courageous or call us crazy, we publish our trial, hearing, case and race scehdule so that clients and others can watch, learn and be prepared. In order to make important decisions about...

• OSHA cites Manhattan contractor after worker fall at Brooklyn worksite

  Paul Napoli | February 10, 2012 10:04 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A Manhattan-based masonry contractor faces citations and fines totaling $74,500 after an investigation into a construction worker’s 80-foot fall from a scaffold. Inspectors from the...

• News Anchor Bitten in Face by Dog Live on Air

  David Mittleman | February 09, 2012 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  During what was supposed to be a heart warming segment on a local television newscast, a reporter was biten in the face by a dog rescued from an icy lake the day before by firefighters. The dog,...

• No Virginia Workers Compenstion Benefits for Virginia Laborer's Out of State Injury

  Doug Landau | February 08, 2012 5:39 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Just as yesterday's post discussed where to bring a personal injury action for a Virginia resident, this post will look at the same question from the point of view of an on the job accident...

• BP Seeks to Block Expert Testimony in Deepwater Horizon Trial

  Scott Kappes | January 31, 2012 1:27 PM | 0 CommentsHouston, TX

  According to an AP report, BP and other companies involved have filed numerous motions to block the testimony of two expert witnesses in the trial over Deepwater Horizon explosion of April...

• Virginia Workers Comp claims being Mediated

  Doug Landau | January 31, 2012 6:08 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  When cases cannot be settled through negotiations, and trial is not scheduled, Mediation provides another avenue for resolving claims. Mediation allows the injured worker and their family to...

• Why do insurance companies appeal workers comp claims ?

  Doug Landau | January 30, 2012 6:53 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  We have seen several winning decisions appealed by insurance companies and employers despite excellent decisions by the trial judges of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission. When an...

• Sometimes it's Comp and Sometimes it's not

  Doug Landau | January 29, 2012 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  When a worker is in a car wreck on the job, they may have a workers comp claim or a motor vehicle negligence case or both ! At the Herndon law firm ABRAMS LANDAU we are often asked by perplexed...

• Permanent Total Disability Workers Comp Case Tried in Fairfax Virginia

  Doug Landau | January 28, 2012 6:37 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Young Virginia workers who are permanently disabled learn the tragic fact that the Virginia Workers Compensation law limits wage loss benefits to no more than 500 weeks in most workplace injury...

• In Victory for Children, House Bill Fails to Move Out of Committee

  David Mittleman | January 27, 2012 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  On Thursday, the Michigan state House Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing on House Bill 5153, which would provide legal immunity to entities providing “child services programs.”...