No compensation shall be payable for an occupational disease if the employee, in the course of or in the course of entering into the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be payable, falsely represented himself in writing to such employer as not having previously been disabled, laid off, or compensated in damages or otherwise because of such disease.
(Code 1933, § 114-804, enacted by Ga. L. 1946, p. 103.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Workers' Compensation, §§ 46, 578.
C.J.S.- 100A C.J.S., Workers' Compensation, § 1083 et seq.
ALR.- Eligibility for workers' compensation as affected by claimant's misrepresentation of health or physical condition at the time of hearing, 12 A.L.R.5th 658.