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WASHINGTON POST v. D.C. EMPLOYMENT SVCS.

No. 01-AA-1478.

852 A.2d 909 (2004)

THE WASHINGTON POST, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, Respondent, Raymond Reynolds, Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 3, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Schoenfeld, Gaithersburg, MD, with whom John F. Ward was on the brief, for petitioner.

Matthew J. Peffer with whom Benjamin T. Boscolo, Greenbelt, MD, was on the brief, for intervenor.

Arabella W. Teal, Corporation Counsel at the time the statement was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel at the time the statement was filed, filed a statement in lieu of brief for respondent.

Before RUIZ and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

GLICKMAN, Associate J.

This appeal presents a single issue that recurs frequently in our workers' compensation cases: whether an employer has presented sufficient evidence to overcome the statutory presumption of a causal relationship between an employee's disability and an injury the employee sustained at work. We hold that an employer has met its burden to rebut the presumption of causation when it has proffered a qualified independent medical expert who, having...

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