George Townsend has been inducted as a Fellow into the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers.

Steve Hammond has been recognized as one of Virginia's 10 Best Attorneys, Workers' Compensation Division by the American Institute of Legal Counsel.

If you have followed this Blog over time, chances are that you have come across one of my posts on the “Debt Trap”, which is the term I have used to refer to Virginian’s statutory scheme of holding a defendant’s driver’s license hostage for the payment of...

As published November 28, 2017 on workerscompcentral.com The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission today will formally approve draft regulations that will implement new medical fee schedules for use starting Jan. 1. Virginia will become the 44th state to set...

MEDIATION What is it, and what can I expect?  Alternative Dispute Resolution: Approximately 50 years ago, lawyers and other professionals involved in the resolution of disputes began to look at alternatives to traditional methods of resolving those disputes, such as...

In Part 1 of our look at Virginia Code section 65.2-714(b), which is the source of the mysterious “714 fees” available to claimants’ attorneys under Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Act, we learned what those fees were and what the statute requires in order for the...