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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations (Chs. 1 — 15)
Appendix A - Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation
Rule 204 - Subsequent Non-Work Related Injury; Chain of Causation; Burden of Proof

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O.C.G.A. Title 34 Appx. Bd. Work. Comp. r. 204
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  • 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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The section became effective July 1, 1998.

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