Court Addresses Burden on Worker to Lift Suspension on Benefits

The District of Columbia's highest court earlier this month ordered publication of its decision from March saying that a worker whose temporary total benefits were suspended could not get permanent partial disability benefits until she got the suspension order modified. Nathalia Brown suffered an electric shock in 1995 while working as the lead shop mechanic for the Potomac Electric Power Co. A coworker who saw her come into contact with the live wire pushed her off the ladder she was standing on to save her from electrocution. Brown suffered burns from the shock, and she injured her nec...