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The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of temporary total disability benefits to a WMATA bus operator who claimed mental injuries resulting from a 2013 passenger attack and a 2017 workplace incident, finding insufficient medical causality under workers' compensation law.
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<bold>Workers' Compensation — Causation — fibromyalgia — doctor's opinion</bold> <bold>testimony</bold> <block_quote> The Court of Appeals erred in concluding that competent evidence was presented to support the Industrial Commission's findings of fact with regard to the cause of plaintiff-employee's fibromyalgia based solely on the opinion testimony of one doctor.</block_quote>
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