Webb v. City of Atlanta

Ruffin, Judge.

We granted claimant Ronald Webb a discretionary appeal in this workers’ compensation case. In September 1994, an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) ordered the City of Atlanta to pay temporary total disability benefits to Webb, a city employee injured on the job. The City did not appeal that order, but in May 1995 it unilaterally suspended the payments. City officials reasoned that because Webb had received benefits under a city-sponsored disability plan during the entire time he received workers’ compensation benefits, the City was entitled to a credit for the workers’…