Jones v. U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union

D. ARTHUR KELSEY, Judge.

In 1997, Melissa Antoinette Jones filed a workers’ compensation claim and shortly thereafter settled the claim. Her original claim letter alleged various injuries, including injury to her left side and knee. The Memorandum of Agreement, however, narrowed the scope of her injuries and conspicuously excluded any mention of any left knee injury.

Eleven years later, Jones sought an additional award for an injury to her left knee caused by the 1997 accident. The Workers’ Compensation Commission held Jones abandoned her left knee claim. Refusing to “adjudicate cases…