Opinion ID: 1542320
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Heading: D.C. Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act.

Text: While the WCA applies to private-sector employees in the District, Chapter 23 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act (CMPA) governs disability claims of District of Columbia employees. [7] See D.C.Code § 1-623.01 et seq. (2001); Kralick v. District of Columbia Dep't of Employment Servs., 842 A.2d 705, 710 (D.C. 2004); see also Jackson v. District of Columbia Employees' Compensation Appeals Bd., 537 A.2d 576, 577 n. 1 (D.C.1988) ([A] comparable system for providing disability benefits has been established under the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act). The CMPA provides for the compensation of disabilities causally connected to workplace injuries: The District of Columbia shall pay compensation as specified by this subchapter for the disability or death of an employee resulting from personal injury sustained while in the performance of his or her duty, unless the injury or death is: (1) caused by willful misconduct of the employee; (2) caused by the employee's intention to bring about the injury or death of himself or herself or of another; or (3) proximately caused by the intoxication of the injured employee.