Legal Opinion
INDEPENDENT LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY v. Cox
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 19, 1993No. A92A2078PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cooper, Judge.
Appellants are appellee’s former employer and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier. We granted appellants’ application for discretionary appeal to consider whether the superior court erred in reversing the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board that appellants were not liable to appellee for additional workers’ compensation benefits.
Appellee suffered a lower back injury in a work-related fall in 1988, resulting in surgery to remove a ruptured disk. In 1989, he was hospitalized with back pain as the result of a work-related truck accident. Appellee received workers’…
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