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MATTER OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WORKMEN'S COMP. ACT

No. 74-1164.

554 F.2d 1075 (1976)

In the Matter of the claim for compensation under the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT. Charles SWINTON, Appellant, v. J. FRANK KELLY, INC. (Employer), et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1976.

Certiorari Denied October 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Heller, Wheaton, Md., for appellant.

John D. Duncan, III, Washington, D.C., for appellees J. Frank Kelly, Inc. and Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.

Joshua T. Gillelan, II, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Labor, with whom Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., and George M. Lilly, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Labor, were on the brief, for appellee Garrell.

Before WRIGHT and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges, and OSCAR H. DAVIS, Judge, United States Court of Claims.

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

We are summoned on this appeal to determine whether the denial of an employee's claim for compensation under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act1 comports with statutory standards. At the administrative level, the employee's effort to obtain a disability award for his ailing back succumbed to a finding that it was not causally related to his prior job-connected accident. An...

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