Williams v. Bennett

Deen, Presiding Judge.

This court has granted Williams, d/b/a Captain Joe’s Restaurant, and Cotton States Mutual Insurance Company permission to appeal from a judgment of the superior court reversing an order of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation which denied compensation benefits to Joyce Bennett.

The evidence showed that Bennett was employed by Captain Joe’s Restaurant as a waitress when she had a wart .on her finger removed. Complications from the removal of the wart resulted in infection and she sought workers’ compensation claiming that prior to the wart’s removal she bumped it…