Snipes v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Petitioner Snipes was injured in an on-the-job accident in late 1982 and received temporary total benefit payments under the District of Columbia Workers’ Compensation Act, D.C.Code § 36-301 to -344 (1981) (the “Act”). In May of 1983, the carrier determined that Snipes had fully recovered and terminated payments. After a hearing pursuant to the Act, Snipes’s claim for benefits subsequent to the cut-off date was denied in an order which became final on April 1, 1984. No appeal was taken to this court. Several months later, Snipes sought to have the case heard for…