Fulton County Board of Education v. Thomas

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In this workers’ compensation case, we granted certiorari to consider how properly to calculate the “average weekly wage,” as defined in OCGA § 34-9-260, of a claimant who earned income from a temporary job with a second employer during the statutory 13-week period immediately preceding the date she was injured on the job with her primary employer. See id. at (1). The Court of Appeals held that the wages earned from the second employer during the 13-week period should, under the “concurrent similar employment” doctrine, be included in calculating the claimant’s average…