5031116 Public Oversight Roundtable on "Review of the District of Columbia's Workers' Compensation Program"

Council of the District of Columbia

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Notice of Public Oversight Roundtable

 

John A. Wilson Building   1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Ste. G-6    Washington, DC 20004                                           

 

COUNCILMEMBER VINCENT B. ORANGE, SR.

      ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC OVERSIGHT ROUNDTABLE OF THE     

COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, CONSUMER, AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

Review of the District of Columbia’s Workers’ Compensation Program

 

Friday, September 26, 2014, 10:00 am

John A. Wilson Building, Room 500

1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20004

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr. announces the scheduling of a public oversight roundtable of the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs to review the District’s worker compensation program.  The public oversight roundtable is scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. 

 

The purpose of the public oversight roundtable to is to examine the workers’ compensation program with a specific focus on recent reports alleging inappropriate transfers from the fund and that worker compensation claims are being adjudicated by administrative law judges who have no law license.

 

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify at the public oversight roundtable are asked to contact Ms. Faye Caldwell of the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs at [phone] or by email at [e-mail].  Witnesses are asked to furnish their names, addresses, telephone number, email address, and organizational affiliation, if any, by the close of business, Friday, September 19, 2014.  Each witness is requested to bring 20 copies of his/her written testimony.  Representatives of organizations and government agencies will be limited to 5 minutes in order to permit each witness an opportunity to be heard.  Individual witnesses will be limited to 3 minutes.

 

If you are unable to testify at the roundtable, written statements are encouraged and will be made part of the official record.  The official record will remain open until the close of business of Friday, October 10, 2014.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite G-6, of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.