LexisNexis Practice Guide: District of Columbia Workers' Compensation

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Workers’ compensation law in the District of Columbia derives from a unique historical perspective. This has provided for a rich and varied development over the years, sometimes organic, sometimes punctuated in nature, which continues to this day. LexisNexis Practice Guide: District of Columbia Workers’ Compensation is designed to serve as a conspectus of private sector workers’ compensation law and practice in the District of Columbia. Its purpose as a reference is to assist those professionals involved in the prosecution, defense, processing and adjudication of workers’ compensation claims in the District of Columbia.

The Practice Guide contains:

• A description of the entities and their role within the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services which process and adjudicate workers’ compensation claims.
• A guide for claimants and employers’ counsel to open and handle a claim file and best represent their client.
• Review of procedures and forms essential to the proper and effective prosecution and defense of a claim.
• Examination of legal issues and citation of legal authority pertinent to those issues which may arise at the beginning of or throughout the claim.
• A practitioner’s guide to the benefits structure in the District of Columbia.
• Litigating the claim through appeal.

The previous edition's ISBN is 9781663398734.

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