HARRIS v. OFFICE OF WORKER'S COMPENSATION

No. 94-AA-1012.

660 A.2d 404 (1995)

Eugene M. HARRIS, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF WORKER'S COMPENSATION (DOES), Respondent, and Bell Atlantic-D.C., Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 29, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Strasser, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Garland Pinkston, Acting Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, DC, filed a statement in lieu of brief, for respondent.

Donald P. Maiberger, Washington, DC, for intervenor.

Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and NEWMAN, Senior Judge.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Eugene M. Harris has asked this court to review a decision of a Hearing and Appeals Examiner of the Department of Employment Services (DOES or the agency) holding that an injury which Harris allegedly suffered after the effective date of the Worker's Compensation Act of 1979, D.C.Code §§ 36-301, et seq. (1993) (the WCA or 1979 Act), was not a new injury but merely a "recurrence" of a pre-Act injury, and therefore non-compensable...

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