Earlier this year, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a decision in a workers’ compensation case where the employee alleged a work-related stroke.  Save-A-Lot Food Stores v. Amos, 331 Ga. App. 517, 771 S.E.2d 192 (2015). Workers’ compensation claims typically do not require evidence of causation.  However, in cases involving heart disease, heart attack, failure […]

Georgia law generally, with few exceptions, prohibits a party from recovery of damages for emotional distress arising from witnessing the injuries sustained by another.  This position promulgates Georgia’s adherence to the “impact rule.”  Under the “impact rule”, to recover for emotional injuries, the defendant’s conduct must result in actual bodily contact to the plaintiff.  Ryckeley […]