Workplace Injuries

• Horseplay is not fun: Workers Compensation claim frozen in its tracks

  Danielle Landau | August 14, 2009 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Joking around becomes no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. But in a recent workers compensation case, ice throwing at work resulted in a serious injury. A male waiter entered the kitchen of...

• Horseplay is not fun: Workers Compensation claim frozen in its tracks

  Doug Landau | August 09, 2009 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Joking around becomes no laughing matter when someone gets hurt. But in a recent workers compensation case, ice throwing at work resulted in a serious injury. A male waiter entered the kitchen...

• "On the job" injuries: Are you "ON THE JOB" when you injured are out of the office or shop?

  Danielle Landau | July 04, 2009 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Workers injured on the job are usually expected to be ON the job in order to get workers compensation benefits. However, there are exceptions. One such exception that has helped our clients who...

• Virginia's Workers Compensation Law: Death on the Job Must be Immediate!

  Doug Landau | June 16, 2009 2:26 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  At Abrams Landau we represent multiple workers and families of workers injured and sometimes killed at work. Though Worker's compensation was established to protect and provide for benefits to the...

• Promotions and the Average Weekly Wage

  Lauren Holtzman | December 08, 2008 3:38 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  When you are injured in a compensable, work-related accident, your employer may pay for wages you cannot earn while you are recovering from your injury. Generally, Virginia Code specifies that an...

• Can an injured worker collect Social Security Disability payments AND Workers Comp at the same time?

  Doug Landau | November 17, 2008 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  In a word, yes. Injured workers who are disabled from their regular jobs and receiving state workers compensation benefits AND who are also unable to do work may be eligible for Federal disability...

• Cost-of-Living Adjustments

  Dianna Meredith | November 11, 2008 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  Each year the Federal government increases Social Security benefits to offset the effects of inflation on fixed income. Prior to 1975, beneficiaries had to await a special act of Congress to...

• Reviewing files BEFORE going to court

  Doug Landau | October 23, 2008 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  As they say in the hotel chain commercials, The Best Surprise is No Surprise. Before going to court to try your injury, workers compensation or disability case, it is important to look at the...

• Temporary Workers and Workers' Compensation Insurance

  Lauren Holtzman | October 23, 2008 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  A case recently reported in the Law Report may prove useful to others. Even though this was a case reported out of Texas, it's illustrative of how there is more than one way to get succeed through...

• Virginia Family Files FELA Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | August 13, 2008 10:20 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA

  The estate of a Charlottesville man filed a Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA) complaint in Madison County Court against CSX Transportation alleging asbestos exposure. The estate claims that...