2025 Code of Georgia
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations (Chs. 1 — 15)
Chapter 9 - Workers’ Compensation (Arts. 1 — 12)
Article 7 - Compensation Schedules (§§ 34-9-260 — 34-9-266)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

It is extent of injury received by employee which determines compensation which the employee shall receive. Travelers' Ins. Co. v. Hurt, 176 Ga. 153, 167 S. E. 175, 1932 Ga. LEXIS 412 (1932).

Opinion Notes

1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-136.

When an award is made based upon a percentage of loss-of- earnings, the benefit may be reduced when the employee subsequently receives an increase in earnings. 1960-61 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 589.

Research References & Practice Aids

For note on the 2000 amendments of O. C. G. A. §§ 34-9-261, 34-9-262, 34-9-265, see 17 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 231 (2000).

For annual survey on workers’ compensation law, see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 247 (2014).

Workmen’s compensation: deductions allowable in computing earnings as basis of compensation, 22 A. L. R. 864.

Survival of right to compensation under workmen’s compensation acts upon the death of the person entitled to the award, 24 A. L. R. 441; 29 A. L. R. 1426; 51 A. L. R. 1446; 87 A. L. R. 864; 95 A. L. R. 254.

Previous loss or mutilation of member as affecting amount or basis of compensation under Workmen’s Compensation Act, 30 A. L. R. 979.

Retroactive effort of provision for reduction or increase of award under Workmen’s Compensation Act, 40 A. L. R. 1473.

Workmen’s compensation: double compensation to dependents in case of death of two or more, 45 A. L. R. 894.

Specific grounds for commutation of payments under Workmen’s Compensation Acts, 69 A. L. R. 547.

Tips or gratuities as factor in determining amount of compensation under Workmen’s Compensation Act, 75 A. L. R. 1223.

Board and lodging as a factor in determining the amount of compensation under Workmen’s Compensation Act, 84 A. L. R. 188.

Time as of which earnings are to be considered in computing compensation for an injury or incapacity ultimately resulting from causes not immediately operative, 86 A. L. R. 524.

Marriage as terminating right to future payments of workmen’s compensation to injured female employee, 96 A. L. R. 976.

Settlement of claim or recovery against physician or surgeon or one responsible for his malpractice on account of aggravation of injury as affecting right to compensation under Workmen’s Compensation Act, 98 A. L. R. 1392.

Workmen’s compensation: payment, or period of payment, for separate compensable injuries as concurrent or consecutive, 99 A. L. R. 896.

Workmen’s compensation: compensation for loss or impairment of eyesight, 142 A. L. R. 822.

Workmen’s compensation: right to compensation as affected by fact that injured employee earns or is offered, as much as, or more than, before the injury, 149 A. L. R. 413.

Workmen’s compensation: right to compensation as for a total or partial disability in case of abnormal condition of body or member which results from or is incident to specific injury for which the act makes special allowance, 156 A. L. R. 1344.

What constitutes “salary,” “wages,” “pay,” or the like, within pension law basing benefits thereon, 14 A. L. R.2d 634.

Workmen’s compensation: crediting employer or insurance carrier with earnings of employee reemployed, or continued in employment, after injury, 84 A. L. R.2d 1108.

Workers’ compensation: tips or gratuities as factor in determining amount of compensation, 16 A. L. R.5th 191.

O. C. G. A. Title 34

O. C. G. A. Title 34, Ch. 9