McCarty v. Pride

Miller, Judge.

Randall Scott McCarty contends the superior court erred when it reversed an award entered by the appellate division of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation. We agree and reverse.

Construed in favor of the appellate division’s findings,1 the evidence showed that while employed by Delta Pride as a construction worker in the Central American nation of Belize, McCarty contracted malaria. McCarty and two other workers prepared and loaded equipment into a van in Georgia, drove the van belonging to Delta Pride from Georgia to Belize, and then remained for six weeks to install…