Scope of Compensation

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. General Assembly
  4. Financial Affairs
  5. Claims Advisory Board
  6. Compensation of Persons for Injuries Sustained While Preventing Crime or Aiding Officers of the Law
  7. Scope of Compensation

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The General Assembly may by resolution appropriate money for payment of a claim for compensation upon the recommendation of the board for:

  1. Expenses actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the personal injury or death of the victim; and
  2. Loss of earning power as a result of total or partial incapacity of such victim.

(Ga. L. 1967, p. 712, § 6.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Compensation to injured inmates.

- Pursuant to the 1999 amendments, O.C.G.A. §§ 28-5-85 and28-5-105 prohibit the Claims Advisory Board from recommending compensation to an inmate injured while in the custody of the Department of Corrections. 1999 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 99-11.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 80 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 483, 484.


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