Reliance Insurance v. Cushing

Bell, Chief Judge.

The right to compensation for a specific body member disability under Code § 114-406 is based not upon permanent industrial handicap but solely upon the loss of function of the member itself. Reliance Ins. Co. v. Oliver, 114 Ga. App. 639 (1) (152 SE2d 423). "If an employee who suffers an injury in his employment has a permanent disability or has sustained a permanent injury, such as specified in § 114-406, suffered elsewhere, he shall be entitled to compensation only for the degree of incapacity which would have resulted from a later accident if the earlier disability or…