Georgia Workers' Compensation Lawyer Blog

Georgia workers' compensation law provides that an aggravation of an old, pre-existing injury is treated as a new accident. Sometimes, such an aggravation does not occur in one specific incident or trauma, but rather happens over time while working at a more strenuous job.

If you aggravate an injury by working at a later job that requires, for example, more heavy lifting, more frequent bending, or more climbing than did your old job, and you have to leave the new job as a result, the last day you were able to work is labeled a "fictional new accident." This often means litigation between the injured worker and the two employer (and/or two insurance companies).

For more information and guidance on legal issues like the ones a "fictional new accident" can present, please contact my Atlanta workers' compensation law office :

Moebes Law, LLC
3535 Piedmont Road NE
Building 14, Suite 410
Atlanta, GA  30305
(404)354-5432

An Atlanta police officer is taking his Georgia workers' compensation case to a hearing at the State Board of Workers' Compensation in Atlanta, and several of his colleagues from the APD are rallying around him and his case to support his fight to get the medical care he needs to recover from his workplace injuries. 

Just as these officers are assisting their pained coworker, if you are having trouble getting the medical care you need or the disability benefits you should be getting after your workplace injury, keep in mind whom you can count on from your employer.  Consider having your workers' comp attorney subpoena any sympathetic team members (and certainly any witnesses to your injury) for the workers' compensation hearing if they can testify about facts that will help the Administrative Law Judge realize the nature of your injury and the pain it is causing. 

For assistance with your workers' compensation questions in Georgia, please contact our main law office in Atlanta:
 
Moebes Law, LLC
3535 Piedmont Road NE
Building 14, Suite 410
Atlanta, GA  30305
(404)354-5432