Atlanta Journal & Constitution v. Sims

Sognier, Chief Judge.

Regenia Sims sought workers’ compensation benefits after she was injured in a December 1989 automobile collision that occurred while she was delivering newspapers in the course of her part time employment with the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. The administrative law judge awarded income benefits based on an amount the parties agreed was Sims’s average weekly wage, but rejected her claim that the amount paid to her each week for mileage expense reimbursement should be included in the calculation of her average weekly wage. Sims sought de novo review by the State Board…