Sawyer v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

On Motion for Rehearing.

Counsel for the defendant in a strongly worded motion to rehear urges that this court has overlooked the cases of Burton v. Aetna Cas. &c. Co., 115 Ga. App. 112 (153 SE2d 734) and McIntyre v. Employers Mut. Liab. Ins. Co., 122 Ga. App. 424 (177 SE2d 191), which stand for the proposition that not every case involving a medical question need be referred to the Medical Board but only those cases in which a medical question is "in controversy.” Movant urges that since it is admitted that this employee suffers from schizophrenia there is no medical question in controversy.…