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Hansche v. City of Atlanta Police Dep't

The trial court should have entered judgment on the employee's award of disability benefits since the award was sufficient on its face and the employer did not appeal it.

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The State Board of Workers’ Compensation awarded Naomi M. Hansche temporary partial disability TPD benefits arising out of an injury she received while working for the City of Atlanta Police Department. After the Board modified the award to comply with a mandate from the superior court to account for credits required by OCGA § 34-9-243 a, she petitioned the superior court to enter a judgment in the amount of the reduced award. The court declined, finding the Board’s decision unclear as to the amount of the credit. The question on appeal is whether a Board decision directing that a credit $300.00 per week for nine weeks be applied to reduce TPD benefits awarded in an earlier order is sufficiently clear to require a superior court to enter a judgment in the amount of the awarded benefits less $2700.00. We hold that it is and reverse.

The operative facts are undisputed. Hansche, a City of Atlanta police officer, held a second job as a security officer. After she injured her shoulder in the course of her City employment, she was diagnosed with a traumatic degenerative joint disease in her left shoulder, and an administrative law judge for the Board concluded that she could not perform any active motion with her left arm.

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