Merita Thomas v. Fulton County Board of Education

DOYLE, Presiding Judge.

Merita Thomas filed an application for discretionary appeal from a superior court order affirming the State Board of Workers’ Compensation (“the Board”), which had overruled an Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ”) award to Thomas. Thomas argues that the superior court erred by affirming the Board’s order because (1) the Board incorrectly applied OCGA § 34-9-260 when calculating her average weekly wage; and (2) the Board incorrectly found that her second summer job was not concurrent employment for purposes of average weekly wage calculation. For the reasons that follow,…