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Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide Penalties For Fraudulently Received Benefits; Provide For The Admission Of Lab Results In Administrative Law Hearings; Provide Method Of Determining Temporary Partial Benefits; Eliminate Time Restrictions On Changing Doctors Without Board Approval; Deny Compensation For Subsequent Nonwork Related Injury; Provide Assembly Intent To Codify Existing Law; Change Provisions Relating To Income Benefit Payments; Provide Reimbursement To Insurer Or Self-Insurer Under Certain Conditions; Provide Benefits For Permanent Partial Disability From Hernia Surgery; Change Provisions Relating To The Self-Insurers Guaranty Trust Fund, Meri K. Christensen

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act makes a variety of changes to Georgia's workers' compensation law. First, the Act increases the penalties to be paid by employees who fraudulently retain income benefits to which they are not entitled. The Act also amends the workers' compensation law as it applies to administrative hearings by: (1) allowing the admission of laboratory reports when accompanied by an affidavit from the laboratory, which eases the authenticity requirements, and (2) making the time requirements set forth in title 24 of the Code inapplicable to workers' compensation proceedings. Further, the Act provides for a specified means of determining temporary partial …