District of Columbia Court of Appeals September 5, 2002, 01-AA-149 (Mexicano v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services)

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

Petitioner Lucio Mexicano seeks review of a hearing examiner’s compensation order denying his claim for workers’ eom-pensation benefits.

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He contends that the hearing examiner failed to correctly apply the statutory presumption of compensability by improperly determining that his employer had produced evidence which severed the potential connection between petitioner’s