Georgia § 82 - Statute of Limitation and Procedure for Filing Claims.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 82 — Statute of Limitation and Procedure for Filing Claims., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 82. Statute of Limitation and Procedure for Filing Claims.
Any defense as to the time of filing a claim is waived unless it is made no later than the first hearing. A party filing a claim should file Form WC-14 with the Board and serve a copy on all other parties. A claim shall be filed electronically through ICMS. However, in the event of an outage preventing an electronic submission and the time for filing a claim is at issue, a claim may be filed in paper or by facsimile with any Board office. Any filing by facsimile transmission must be clearly labeled with the name of the claimant, claim number, and Board division or employee to whom the facsimile transmission is directed. The revision effective July 1, 2007, deleted ", along with five copies when also requesting a hearing," preceding "and serve a copy" in subsection (b). The revision effective July 1, 2009, added subsection (c). The revision effective July 1, 2010, in subsection (c), deleted ", only with the prior express permission of the Board" following "Board office" at the end of the second sentence, and added the last sentence.
Source: official Georgia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 82 ("Statute of Limitation and Procedure for Filing Claims.") is part of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the codified statutory law of Georgia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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