Smith v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

Deen, Judge.

In a workmen’s compensation case payments must be computed under Code Ann. § 114-405 “where the incapacity for work ... is partial.” The extent of disability is not computed on physical disability alone, for, as stated in Employers Liab. Assur. Corp. v. Hollifield, 93 Ga. App. 51 (90 SE2d 681), a partial physical disability may result in a total loss of earning capacity, nor is it computed alone on what the claimant is actually earning, for, as stated in Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Wilson, 215 Ga. 746 (113 SE2d 611), a woman who, although drawing no earnings, was physically looking…