United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Branch

Deen, Presiding Judge.

This court granted United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company (USF&G) a discretionary appeal from the Tift County Superior Court’s order of August 14, 1985, affirming the State Board of Workers’ Compensation’s award of benefits to appellee Gary Branch. In July 1980 Branch, a minor, lost two fingers of his right hand and damaged a third finger of the same hand in an accident which occurred while he was engaged in his duties as part-time employee in his father’s farm drainage business. It is undisputed that the business was subject to the Workers’ Compensation Act and was…