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2018 Georgia Code 34-9-204 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 34-9-204 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 34-9-204

TITLE 34 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Section 9. Workers' Compensation, 34-9-1 through 34-9-432.

ARTICLE 6 PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION

34-9-204. Compensation where death or disability caused by nonwork related injury.

  1. No compensation shall be payable for the death or disability of an employee if his or her death is caused by or, insofar as his or her disability, may be aggravated, caused, or continued by a subsequent nonwork related injury which breaks the chain of causation between the compensable injury and the employee's disability.
  2. It is the intent of the General Assembly that this Code section codify existing case law.

(Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 28; Code 1933, § 114-503; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1508, § 5.)

Law reviews.

- For review of 1998 legislation relating to labor and industrial relations, see 15 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 185 (1998).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

New injury unrelated to prior work injury.

- Superior court erred by reversing the State Board of Workers' Compensation's finding that an employee's torn knee ligament was a non-compensable new injury under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-204 resulting solely from a four-wheeler incident at the employee's home and was not caused by a prior injury occurring during the employee's job as a high risk warrant server because there was some evidence to support the finding including the employee's testimony that the pain suffered at the time of the four-wheeler incident was different from the employee's previous pain. Lowndes County Bd. of Comm'rs v. Connell, 305 Ga. App. 844, 701 S.E.2d 227 (2010).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Social security: right to disability benefits as affected by refusal to submit to, or cooperate in, medical or surgical treatment, 114 A.L.R. Fed. 141.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 34-9-204 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 2

Hallisey v. Fort Howard Paper Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1997-04-14

Citation: 268 Ga. 57, 484 S.E.2d 653, 97 Fulton County D. Rep. 1248, 1997 Ga. LEXIS 145

Snippet: disability and the original work injury. OCGA § 34-9-204. But it has not addressed the situation presented

Hallisey v. Fort Howard Paper Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1997-04-14

Citation: 484 S.E.2d 653, 268 Ga. 58

Snippet: disability and the original work injury. O.C.G.A. § 34-9-204. But it has not addressed the situation presented