Snapper Power Equipment Co. v. Crook

Cooper, Judge.

In Georgia Elec. Co. v. Rycroft, 259 Ga. 155 (378 SE2d 111) (1989), the Supreme Court held that an employer is not obligated to pay workers’ compensation benefits to an injured worker who misrepresented his physical condition at the time he was hired if that misrepresentation is both relied upon by the employer and causally related to the subsequent injury for which the worker seeks compensation. We granted this discretionary appeal to consider whether an employer who institutes payments without an award when a worker is injured in 1987 may in 1990, after the decision in…