EMPLOYEE WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE PRIOR WORK INJURY ON JOB APPLICATION STILL ENTITLED TO WORK WITHIN RESTRICTIONS OR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BENEFITS FROM CURRENT EMPLOYER McDuffie v. Ocmulgee EMC, 338 Ga. App. 200, 789 S.E.2d 415 (2016), illustrated an extremely convoluted decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals. Ten judges participated in this decision. Three judges…
According to the Georgia Supreme Court, its recent decision in Fulton County Board of Education v. Thomas, No. S15G1205 (Ga., May 23, 2016), was a case of first impression. Under Georgia’s workers’ compensation law, the amount of an injured employee’s weekly benefit is based upon the employee’s “average weekly wage” over the “13-week period” preceding…
Last month, I had the opportunity to speak on Atlanta Legal Experts on the Pro Business Channel, and had a great time. We discussed Workers’ Compensation in Georgia, and what an Employee should do, should an injury occur at work, as well as other details. If you’d like to listen to the broadcast, and learn a thing or two,…
There is a black hole or vortex where things mysteriously disappear, like that one sock that vanishes on laundry day, or ships and planes in the Bermuda triangle. Now workers’ compensation benefits are being swallowed up. Claiming that the cost of benefits has become too high, large corporations have been seeking ways to cut them…
