Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Ledbetter

1. Because the majority opinion has mortally wounded the limitation period for filing a change in condition claim, I offer this dissent as a eulogy for OCGA § 34-9-104 (b).

OCGA § 34-9-104 (b) imposes a two-year limit on asserting *520claims for a change in condition, that limitation period commencing upon “the final payment of income benefits due . . There was nothing nebulous about that statutory limitation until this court added the gloss, “potentially due other income benefits,” in Holt’s Bakery v. Hutchinson, 177 Ga. App. 154, 160 (338 SE2d 742) (1985), which the majority opinion affirms in…