Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Lemon

Marshall, Judge.

The question presented in this workmen’s compensation appeal by the employer, a self-insurer, is whether the claimant’s total disability resulted from a "new accident” caused by aggravation by continued work of a previous compensable injury, so as to authorize the present award to the claimant under cases exemplified by Blackwell v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 230 Ga. 174 (196 SE2d 129) (1973), National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Johnston, 122 Ga. App. 332 (3) (177 SE2d 125) (1970), and cases cited therein, or whether it resulted merely from a change of condition involving a gradual…