Freeman v. Southwire Co.

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

We granted Sandra Freeman permission to appeal the superior court’s affirmance of the Workers’ Compensation Board’s (“Board”) decision to deny her workers’ compensation benefits. Adopting the findings of the administrative law judge (“ALJ”), the Board had ruled that her refusal to continue performing the specially-tailored lighter-duty job which accommodated her work-related injury was unjustified under OCGA § 34-9-240 (a), where the basis for that refusal was a new debilitating nonjob-related disease which she had contracted after she had been working in the…