Fulton County Board of Workers' Compensation v. Robinson

Ruffin, Judge.

We granted the Fulton County Board of Workers’ Compensation’s (“Fulton County”) application for discretionary appeal to determine whether the superior court erred in dismissing its appeal from an award of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation for Fulton County’s failure to comply with OCGA § 34-9-105 (b).

Fulton County filed its notice of appeal from an award of the full board on July 19, 1993, and a hearing was scheduled in the superior court for September 10, 1993. At the September 10 hearing, George Robinson moved Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings to disqualify herself from…