McRae v. Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc.

BARNES, Presiding Judge.

Because the Workers’ Compensation Act, OCGA § 34-9-1 et seq. (“the Act”), does not compel an employee to authorize her treating physician to talk to her employer’s lawyer ex parte in exchange for receiving benefits for a compensable injury, we reverse the superior court’s order to the contrary in this case.

In February 2006, Laura McRae suffered third-degree burns to her esophagus at work after mistakenly drinking lye that had been left in the break room in a cup similar to the one she had been using. *314Her employer, Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., did not controvert…