Georgia Institute of Technology v. Gore

Pope, Judge.

Workers’ Compensation; Statute of Limitation. We granted appellants’ application for discretionary review in order to consider the novel issue of statutory construction presented. The sole issue is, given that the employee/appellee failed to file a claim for workers’ compensation benefits within one year after the date of his employment-related injury, whether the admitted failure of the employer/appellant to maintain and post a panel of physicians renders, for statute of limitation purposes, medical treatment received by the employee on account of the injury to be remedial…