Capital Atlanta, Inc. v. Carroll

Pope, Chief Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case, the employer and its insurer appeal an order of the Superior Court affirming the Board’s award granting the claimant income and medical benefits as well as attorney fees.

The claimant, a 35-year-old ironworker, injured his right knee while on the job on January 22, 1992. Fifteen years earlier, the claimant had injured the same knee and undergone surgery. However, Dr. Lawrence Reckles, the claimant’s treating physician, testified that the claimant’s prior injury had completely healed; that the current injury involved a different part of the…