FONTENOT v. DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

No. 00-AA-1496.

804 A.2d 1104 (2002)

Perry FONTENOT, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, Respondent. Personnel One, Inc. and Kemper Insurance Companies, Intervenors.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 15, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Smith, Jr., Baltimore, MD, for petitioner.

Mary G. Weidner for intervenors.

Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, filed a statement in lieu of brief for respondent.

Before TERRY, STEADMAN, and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Petitioner seeks review of an order of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services ("DOES") which denied his request for workers' compensation benefits for alleged job-related hypertension and stress-related disability. He argues that his employer did not present substantial evidence to rebut the presumption that his injuries arose out of and in the course of his job. Because the appeals examiner's decision was based on a document...

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