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GA Code § 34-7-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 1 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Wages Generally|§ 34-7-3. Requirements Where Wages Paid by Written Instrument; Effect of Protest or Dishonor

  Any order, check, draft, note, or other instrument issued in payment of wages or salary due or to become due must be negotiable and payable in cash, on demand, without discount, at some established place of business in the United States, the name and address of which must appear on the instrument. At the time of issuance of such instrument and for a reasonable time thereafter (which must be at least 30 days), the maker or drawer must have sufficient funds or credit or an arrangement or understanding with the drawee as to its payment.   Where an instrument described in this Code section is protested or dishonored, the notice or memorandum of protest or dishonor is admissible as proof of presentation, nonpayment, and protest and is presumptive evidence of knowledge of insufficiency of funds or credit with the drawee.    (Code 1933, § 66-102.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 672, § 2.)   Cross references.   - Negotiable instruments generally, Art. 3, T. 11.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Liability for violations of wage payment provisions.    - Consultant employed by a labor pool was not an "employer" under Georgia law and, therefore, was not subject to liability for violations of O.C.G.A. §§ 34-7-2 and34-7-3. Sakas v. Settle Down Enters., Inc., 90 F. Supp. 2d 1267 (N.D. Ga. 2000).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Validity, construction, and effect of statutory or contractual provision in, government construction contract referring to Secretary of Labor questions respecting wage rates or classification of employees of contractor, 163 A.L.R. 1300.   Validity, construction, and effect of state laws requiring payment of wages on resignation of employee immediately or within specified period, 11 A.L.R.5th 715.   Validity, construction, and effect of state laws requiring payment of wages on discharge of employee immediately or within specified period, 18 A.L.R.5th 577.
GA Code § 34-7-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer's Liability|Article 1 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Wages Generally|§ 34-7-5. Redemption of Checks or Other Written Evidences of Indebtedness for Wages

 Any corporation or person doing business of any kind in this state who shall issue checks or written evidences of indebtedness for the wages of laborers shall redeem at full value, in cash, such written evidences of indebtedness on demand and presentation to the proper person on the regular monthly payday; and, if there shall be no regular monthly payday, then such written evidences shall be redeemed upon demand and presentation on any regular business day after 30 days from the issuance thereof. For every failure to redeem such evidences of indebtedness, such corporation or person shall be liable to the owner thereof in the sum of $10.00, to be recovered by suit, unless the corporation or person shall, upon the trial, prove insolvency or actual inability to redeem at the time of demand and presentation.   (Ga. L. 1888, p. 48, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 1871; Civil Code 1910, § 2235; Code 1933, § 66-106; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 34.)
GA Code § 34-9-81 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 1 - Claims and Notice of Accident|§ 34-9-81. Contents of Written Notice; Manner of Delivery

 The written notice provided for in Code Section 34-9-80 shall state in ordinary language the name and address of the employee, the time, place, nature, and cause of the accident and of the resulting injury or death and shall be signed by the employee or by a person in his behalf or, in the event of his death, by any one or more of his dependents or by a person in their behalf. No defect or inaccuracy in the notice shall be a bar to compensation unless the employer shall prove that his interest was prejudiced thereby, and then only to the extent of the prejudice. Such notice shall be given personally to the employer, or his agent, representative, or foreman, or to the immediate superior of the injured employee or may be sent by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery addressed to the employer at his last known residence or place of business.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, §§ 23, 24; Ga. L. 1923, p. 92, §§ 1, 2; Code 1933, § 114-304; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Period of time a person has been retired  from or has not been employed by a school system would not be of any particular significance as to a former employer's workers' compensation coverage; this is not to say that there are not notice of accident filing requirements and filing of claim requirements which must be complied with in order for an employee or former employee to make a proper claim for compensation. 1977 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 77-38.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, § 495 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 100 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, §§ 958, 959.   ALR.    - Workmen's compensation: duty of injured employee to submit to an examination, 41 A.L.R. 866.    Requirement of Workmen's Compensation Act as to notice of accident or injury, 92 A.L.R. 505; 107 A.L.R. 815; 145 A.L.R. 1263.    Workmen's compensation: injury to servant who lives on employer's premises as arising out of and in the course of the employment, 158 A.L.R. 606.
GA Code § 34-9-81.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 1 - Claims and Notice of Accident|§ 34-9-81.1. Board's Duty to Provide Injured Workers With Notice of Rights, Benefits, and Obligations

  The board shall provide by rule for the publication of a summary of the rights, benefits, and obligations under this chapter and the distribution of such summary to employers and employees in this state.The board shall provide by rule for the display of such summary by employers in locations accessible to employees.   Any person who fails or refuses to comply with a rule of the board promulgated pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section shall be subject to an administrative fine not to exceed $1,000.00.     (Code 1981, §34-9-81.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 700, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 34; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 34; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1942, § 9.)   Law reviews.   - For note on 1992 amendment of this Code section, see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 285 (1992).
GA Code § 34-9-83 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 1 - Claims and Notice of Accident|§ 34-9-83. Priority of Claims

 All rights of compensation under this chapter shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for claims for unpaid wages for labor.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 21; Code 1933, § 114-301.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, § 166.   C.J.S.   - 99 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 321.
GA Code § 34-9-85 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 1 - Claims and Notice of Accident|§ 34-9-85. Claim by Guardian or Trustee of Mental Incompetent or Minor

 If an injured employee is mentally incompetent or is under 18 years of age at the time any right or privilege accrues to him under this chapter, his guardian or trustee may claim and exercise such right or privilege in his behalf.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 47; Code 1933, § 114-307.)   Law reviews.   - For annual survey of law of workers' compensation, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. 479 (2004).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Representation by attorney.    - Award made under the workers' compensation law (see now O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1 et seq.) involving a claimant under 18 years of age, who was represented by an attorney engaged by the claimant's father as the claimant's natural guardian, the father being present and testifying on the first hearing, before a single director, will not be set aside as improperly made on the ground that no guardian or trustee appeared for the claimant as provided by this section. Webb v. General Accident, Fire & Life Ins. Co., 72 Ga. App. 127, 33 S.E.2d 273 (1945).    Plain intimation of Ga. L. 1920, p. 167 § 47 (see now O.C.G.A. § 34-9-85) is that a guardian or trustee, in the guardian's power to act, is limited to cases when the minor employee has not attained the age of 18 years. Porter v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 46 Ga. App. 86, 166 S.E. 675 (1932).    Cited in Rourke v. U.S. Fid. & Guar. Co., 187 Ga. 636, 1 S.E.2d 728 (1939); Royal Indem. Co. v. Agnew, 66 Ga. App. 377, 18 S.E.2d 57 (1941).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, §§ 506 et seq., 591.   C.J.S.   - 100 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 928 et seq. 101 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 1652 et seq.   ALR.    - Right of parent who consents to or acquiesces in employment of child under statutory age to recover for latter's injury or death while in such employment, 23 A.L.R. 635; 40 A.L.R. 1206.    Applicability and effect of Workmen's Compensation Act in cases of injury to minors, 83 A.L.R. 416; 142 A.L.R. 1018.    Protection of interest or rights of minors in proceedings for, or award of, compensation under provisions of Workmen's Compensation Act, 120 A.L.R. 395.
GA Code § 34-9-86 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 1 - Claims and Notice of Accident|§ 34-9-86. Applicability of Time Limits to Mental Incompetents, Minors, and Persons Proceeding Against Defunct Corporations

 No limitation of time provided in this chapter for the giving of notice or making claim shall apply to any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor dependent, as long as he has no guardian or trustee, or to a person who proceeds in good faith against a corporation supposed to have a legal entity but which is proved to be defunct by reason of the expiration of its charter.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 48; Ga. L. 1925, p. 282, § 3; Code 1933, § 114-306.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, §§ 540 et seq., 593.   C.J.S.   - 100 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 948.   ALR.    - Applicability of general statute of limitations to action, or proceeding under workmen's compensation acts, 16 A.L.R. 462; 40 A.L.R. 495.    May notice of injury or claim contemplated by Workmen's Compensation Act be waived, 78 A.L.R. 1306.    Mental incompetency as obviating effect of failure to comply with provisions of Workmen's Compensation Acts as to giving notice or other procedural matters, 91 A.L.R. 1400.    Protection of interest or rights of minors in proceedings for, or award of, compensation under provisions of Workmen's Compensation Act, 120 A.L.R. 395.    Applicability and effect of Workmen's Compensation Act in cases of injury to minors, 142 A.L.R. 1018.    Workmen's compensation: provision limiting time for giving notice of injury or presenting claim as applied to infants, 142 A.L.R. 1035.   Effect of injured employee's proceeding for workmen's compensation benefits on running of statute of limitations governing action for personal injury arising from same incident, 71 A.L.R.3d 849.
GA Code § 34-9-101 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 2 - Hearing and Appeals|§ 34-9-101. Appointment of Physician to Examine Injured Employee; Payment of Fee and Expenses of Examining Physician

 The members of the board or any one of them or an administrative law judge may, upon the application of either party or upon their own motion, appoint one or more disinterested and duly qualified physicians or surgeons to make any necessary medical examination of the employee and to report or testify with respect thereto. The physicians or surgeons shall be allowed travel expenses and a reasonable fee, to be paid by either or both parties or by the state, as directed by the board, any member thereof, or an administrative law judge.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 62; Code 1933, § 114-713; Ga. L. 1975, p. 198, § 11; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1679, § 17.)   Cross references.   - Examination of employee upon request by employer, and effect of refusal of examination, § 34-9-202.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Discretion in appointing physician.    - This section invested discretion in the making or refusing of appointment of a physician to examine an employee. Ingram v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 62 Ga. App. 789, 10 S.E.2d 99 (1940).   Disqualification.    - Disinterested physician would not be disqualified as a matter of law if the physician were the family physician of the employer, was hired and paid to treat certain persons at the instance of the carrier, and was also the family physician of the employee; it would not disqualify the physician, as a matter of law, if the physician occupied such position toward only one or two of the interested parties, but if the physician were regularly retained by any one of the three the physician would be disqualified. Wiley v. Bituminous Cas. Co., 76 Ga. App. 862, 47 S.E.2d 652 (1948).    Physician appointed under this section was not disqualified to serve in this capacity merely because on some occasions the physician examined and treated patients at the instance of the employer's insurance carrier, when the physician was paid for such services as they were rendered, and was not regularly retained by such carrier. Wiley v. Bituminous Cas. Co., 76 Ga. App. 862, 47 S.E.2d 652 (1948).   Opportunity to cross-examine physician.    - When, on the hearing of a claim for compensation, it was ordered on motion of counsel for claimant that claimant be examined by a physician who was not present, but when counsel for employer and insurance carrier did not waive the right to subject such physician to cross-examination, exception to award in claimant's favor, on grounds that such physician's report was considered in making such award and that counsel for employer and insurance carrier had no opportunity to subject the physician to cross-examination, was meritorious. Caldwell v. American Mut. Liab. Ins. Co., 45 Ga. App. 82, 163 S.E. 247 (1932).    Cited in Roberson v. Lumbermen's Mut. Cas. Co., 92 Ga. App. 572, 89 S.E.2d 270 (1955).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 100 C.J.S., Workmen's Compensation, § 993 et seq.
GA Code § 34-9-106 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 2 - Hearing and Appeals|§ 34-9-106. Entry and Execution of Judgment on Settlement Agreement, Final Order or Decision, or Award; Modification and Revocation of Orders and Decrees

  Any party in interest in a matter involving an injury may file in the superior court of the county in which the injury occurred or, if the injury occurred outside this state or if the matter does not involve an injury, in the county in which the original hearing was had, a certified copy of:   A settlement agreement approved by the board;   A final order or decision of the board;   An unappealed award of the board;   An award of the board affirmed upon appeal; or   Any final order or decision regarding the Self-insurers Guaranty Trust Fund,  whereupon the court shall render judgment in accordance therewith and notify the parties. Such judgment shall have the same effect and all proceedings in relation thereto shall thereafter be the same as though the judgment had been rendered in an action duly heard and determined by such court; provided, however, that where the payment of compensation is insured or provided for in accordance with this chapter, no such judgment shall be entered nor execution thereon issued except upon application to the court and for good cause shown.      Upon presentation to the court of the certified copy of a decision of the board ending, diminishing, or increasing a weekly payment under the provisions of this chapter, particularly of Code Section 34-9-104, the court shall revoke or modify the order or decree to conform to such decision of the board.    (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 60; Code 1933, § 114-711; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 34; Ga. L. 2010, p. 126, § 2/HB 1101.)   Cross references.   - Settlement agreements generally, § 34-9-15.   Law reviews.   - For article surveying developments in Georgia workers' compensation law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 323 (1981). For annual survey article discussing workers' compensation law, see 52 Mercer L. Rev. 505 (2000). For annual survey of law on labor and employment law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 181 (2010).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   ANALYSIS    General Consideration   Parties in Interest   Enforcement   Defenses   Application    RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 100A C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 1299 et seq. 101 C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 1627 et seq.   ALR.    - Res judicata as regards decisions or awards under Workmen's Compensation Acts, 122 A.L.R. 550.    Workmen's compensation: character or status of right or claim within provision of act requiring or authorizing approval by the court or commission of settlement or compromise, 153 A.L.R. 285.
GA Code § 34-9-107 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 3 - Procedure|Part 2 - Hearing and Appeals|§ 34-9-107. Interest Payable on Final Award of Board in the Event of Appeal

 Any final award for compensation entered by the board shall bear interest at the legal rate of 12 percent on all accrued amounts and on all amounts accruing prior to final judgment in the event of an appeal being taken from the board in the same manner in which it is now provided that interest shall run on a judgment of the superior court in the event an appeal is taken therefrom.   (Code 1933, § 114-718, enacted by Ga. L. 1952, p. 271, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 748, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For article, "Workers' Compensation," see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 521 (2001).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 100A C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 1299 et seq.
GA Code § 34-9-204 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 6 - Payment of Compensation|Part 1 - Medical Attention|§ 34-9-204. Compensation Where Death or Disability Caused by Nonwork Related Injury

  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.   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.
GA Code § 34-9-220 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 6 - Payment of Compensation|Part 2 - Method of Payment|§ 34-9-220. Period of Incapacity Preceding Payment of Compensation

 No compensation shall be allowed for the first seven calendar days of incapacity resulting from an injury, including the day of the injury, except the benefits provided for in Code Section 34-9-200; provided, however, that, if an employee is incapacitated for 21 consecutive days following an injury, compensation shall be paid for such first seven calendar days of incapacity.   (Ga. L. 1922, p. 185, § 2; Code 1933, § 114-401; Ga. L. 1963, p. 141, § 3; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1409, § 10.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Remedy for enforcement of award made under Workmen's Compensation Act in case of injury to public officer or employee, 10 A.L.R. 190.    Workmen's compensation: statutory phrase "incapacity for work" or the like, as including inability to obtain work following an injury, 33 A.L.R. 115.
GA Code § 34-9-223 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 6 - Payment of Compensation|Part 2 - Method of Payment|§ 34-9-223. Lump Sum Payments to Trustees

 Whenever the board deems it expedient, any lump sum, subject to the provisions of Code Section 34-9-222, or final settlement, subject to the provisions of Code Section 34-9-15, shall be paid by the employer to some suitable person or corporation appointed by the superior court of the county wherein the accident occurred or the original hearing was held as trustee to administer such payment for the benefit of the person or persons entitled thereto in the manner provided by the board. The receipt by such trustees of the amount so paid shall discharge the employer or anyone else who is liable therefor.   (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 44; Code 1933, § 114-418; Ga. L. 2009, p. 118, § 5/HB 330.)   Law reviews.   - For annual survey on workers' compensation, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 399 (2009).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Department of Indus. Relations v. Travelers' Ins. Co., 177 Ga. 669, 170 S.E. 883 (1933).
GA Code § 34-9-244 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations|Chapter 9 - Workers' Compensation|Article 6 - Payment of Compensation|Part 3 - Limitations on Payment|§ 34-9-244. Reimbursement of Provider of Disability Benefits to Person Who Subsequently Files Claim

  Any party to a claim under this chapter, a group insurance company, or other disability benefits provider who provides disability benefits for a person who subsequently files a claim under this chapter may give notice in writing to the board at any time during the pendency of the claim that such provider is or should be a party at interest as a result of such disability benefits paid to the employer.   In cases where a group insurance company or other disability benefits provider pays disability benefits to a person pursuant to an employer paid plan who subsequently files a claim and is entitled to benefits under this chapter, the board shall be authorized to order the employer or its workers' compensation insurance carrier to repay the group insurance company or other disability benefits provider the funds it has expended for such disability benefits and take credit for that amount against income benefits due under this chapter, provided that:   Such employer or its workers' compensation insurance carrier is liable under this chapter for income benefits;   Such other provider has become or should be a party at interest pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section; and   The disability benefits paid are pursuant to a plan funded in whole or in part by the employer or workers' compensation carrier.       (Code 1981, §34-9-244, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1409, § 13.)