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2019 Georgia Code
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Appendix: Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Workers' Compensation
§ 204. Subsequent Non-Work Related Injury; Chain of Causation; Burden of Proof
Universal Citation: GA Code § 204 (2019)
The employer/insurer shall not suspend weekly benefits on the ground that a subsequent nonwork related injury has broken the chain of causation between the compensable injury and the employee's disability except by the order of the Board.
The burden of proving that the chain of causation has been broken shall be upon the employer/insurer.
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