MUSHROOM TRASNP. v. D.C. DEPT. OF EMP. SVCS.

No. 95-AA-730.

698 A.2d 430 (1997)

MUSHROOM TRANSPORTATION & National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly D. Vanstrom, with whom Michael S. Levin, Columbia, MD, was on the brief, for petitioners.

Martin B. White, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for respondent.

Before TERRY and KING, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.


KING, Associate Judge:

In this petition we are asked to reject an interpretation of ambiguous language in the Workers' Compensation Act1 ("Act") in a provision relating to the reduction of workers' compensation benefits when the employee receives other benefits from certain other sources. Because this case reaches us through the default provisions of D.C.Code § 36-322(b) (1997 Repl.),2 and because the...

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