Ferreira v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

How courts have described this case

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• noting that if petitioner’s condition “ ‘arose even in part out of the course of [her] employment’ compensation is appropriate”
• adding that “[n]umerous cases in this jurisdiction illustrate the principle that „repeated trauma‟ or „cumulative exposure‟ to conditions or activities which potentially result in or contribute to disability or death satisfy the causality requirement of „accidental injury‟”
• adding, that “[n]umerous cases in this jurisdiction illustrate the principle that ‘repeated trauma’ or ‘cumulative exposure’- to conditions or activities which potentially result in or contribute to disability or death satisfy the causality requirement of ‘accidental injury’ ”
• \This jurisdiction has repeatedly rejected the notion that a 'specific traumatic injury' is necessary to establish a prima facie case of an ‘accidental injury.’ \
• unexpected injury incurred during the course of work, though not specifically traumatic or particularized, may be compensable
• once presumption is triggered, burden is on employer to show by substantial evidence that injury did not arise out of and in the course of employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).