Impress Communications, Inc. v. Stanley

Cooper, Judge.

We granted this discretionary appeal in a workers’ compensation case to consider whether claimant gave her employer timely notice of her injury pursuant to OCGA § 34-9-80. Before claimant was hired as a litho-stripper by the employer in 1987, she had a history of back problems and had been under the care of a chiropractor since 1984. The record reveals that prior to her employment in 1987, claimant suffered a painful hysterectomy and a motorcycle accident and had sustained an injury working on a farm in late 1988. Her job involved a great deal of physical exertion, including…