Brown-Carson v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

Ferren, Senior Judge:

Petitioner appeals from a decision of the Compensation Review Board (CRB) vacating a compensation order by an administrative law judge (ALJ), who ruled that notice of petitioner’s workers’ compensation claim (as well as the claim itself) had been timely and awarded her compensation for temporary total disability (carpal tunnel syndrome). We reverse and remand to the CRB for a decision consistent with this opinion.

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Petitioner worked for the District of Columbia for twenty-five years before filing a claim for workers’ compensation. From 1987 to 1993, she fielded 911 calls…