Georgia Power Company v. Brasill

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case Georgia Power Company, employer/insurer, appeals from the Putnam County Superior Court’s affirmance of an award of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation. Appellant alleges that the court erred in substituting itself for the Board as fact finder, in considering an issue not raised below, in approving a change of physicians contrary to the provisions of OCGA § 34-9-200 (Code Ann. § 114-501), and in thereby basing its decision on an erroneous legal theory.

In January 1981 appellee Brasill, a senior instrument technician with Georgia…