Georgia Bureau of Investigation v. Worthington, 57378
| Decision Date | 13 April 1979 |
| Docket Number | No. 57378,57378 |
| Parties | GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al. v. WORTHINGTON. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Gary R. Hurst, G. Thomas Davis, Atlanta, for appellants.
James I. Parker, Cedartown, for appellee.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Polk County affirming an award of compensation to Worthington by the State Board of Workers' Compensation.
The record shows that Worthington, age 53 at the time of the incident in question, was an employee of the Georgia Crime Information Center, a division of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and he had primary responsibility for the collection and submission of statistical data on crime in his fourteen county district. Shortly after leaving his home in Cedartown on July 14, 1976, enroute to his employment-related appointment at a firing range in Atlanta, he stopped at a restaurant for coffee and while there experienced a dizzy spell. With some assistance, he left the restaurant and drove to the offices of a doctor in Cedartown, and later in the day, drove to his office in Atlanta where he experienced blurred vision, a headache, and impairment of speech and movement.
Three doctors testified in this proceeding, and all agreed that Worthington is totally incapacitated to perform the duties of his job. It is Worthington's contention that the medical incident which occurred on July 14, 1976, was caused by the stress and tension of the duties of his job. There was a variance in the diagnosis reached concerning the claimant's medical condition. After the administrative law judge denied benefits, the board made the following findings of fact:
The GBI contends that because Dr. Campbell, who had treated Worthington on a regular basis prior to the incident in question, referred the claimant to Dr. Seavey, a specialist in internal medicine, who gave testimony unfavorable to the claimant's contentions, then Dr....
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