Price v. Lithonia Lighting Co.

Marshall, Chief Justice.

We granted the appellant’s application for discretionary appeal in this workers’ compensation case. The question for decision concerns the constitutionality of OCGA § 34-9-285. Where an occupational disease aggravates, or is aggravated by a noncompensable disease or infirmity, § 34-9-285 provides that the workers’ compensation award will be “limited only to such proportion of the compensation that would be payable if the occupational disease were the sole cause of the disability or death as such occupational disease, as the causative factor, bears to all the causes of…