The Georgia Court of Appeals last week ruled that the two-year statute of limitations for change-in-condition claims didn't bar a catastrophically injured worker from seeking temporary total disability income benefits nearly two decades after he lost his left leg in an industrial accident.
Any other conclusion, the court said, would penalize Willie Barnes for having continued working, despite his significant physical limitations, for as long as he could.
Barnes had been working at a wood-processing plant owned by the Georgia-Pacific Corp. when his leg went through a rotted area in the fl...
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