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2018 Georgia Code 34-9-283 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 34-9-283 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 34-9-283

TITLE 34 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

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

ARTICLE 8 COMPENSATION FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE

34-9-283. Applicability to occupational diseases of provisions of Code Section 34-9-263 regarding permanent partial industrial disabilities.

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.

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

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 and34-9-283 provisions for a permanent partial disability were inapposite. Computation 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.

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