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O.C.G.A. § 34-9-283 (2019)

Applicability to occupational diseases of provisions of Code Section 34-9-263 regarding permanent partial industrial disabilities

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The provisions of Code Section 34-9-263 with respect to permanent partial industrial disabilities shall apply in the case of an occupational disease, save and except that there shall be no compensation due or payable for the partial loss of or for partial loss of use of a member or for partial loss of vision of an eye.

History

(Code 1933, § 114-807, enacted by Ga. L. 1946, p. 103; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 34; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 13.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS If worker was totally disabled by respiratory impairment resulting from byssinosis and other, non-work-related causes, including smoking, O.C.G.A. §§ 34-9-263 and 34-9-283 provisions for a permanent partial disability were inapposite. Computa-

tion of benefits had to be made under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-285. Whitaker v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., 174 Ga. App. 533, 330 S.E.2d 761 (1985). Cited in Yates v. United States Rubber Co., 100 Ga. App. 583, 112 S.E.2d 182 (1959).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 100 C.J.S., Workers’ Compensation, § 646 et seq.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1985–1985 · leading case: Whitaker v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., 330 S.E.2d 761 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985).
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Whitaker v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., 330 S.E.2d 761 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 34-9-283 generally makes Section 34-9-263 applicable to occupational diseases.”
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