Brown v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

BECKWITH, Associate Judge:

In an earlier appeal in this workers’ compensation case, this court identified some “unsettled issues concerning the interpretation of the .Workers’ Compensation Act and the procedural rules that the [Compensation Review] Board follows,” and remanded the matter to allow the CRB to address two discrete questions in the first instance: (1) whether the Board here had the authority to raise sua sponte a claimant’s suspension of benefits under D.C.Code § 32 — 1507(d) (2012 Repl.), and (2) whether a claimant who seeks to modify such a suspension may do so only through…