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TN Code § 50-6-240 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation|§ 50-6-240. Settlement Agreement at Conference — Written Agreement or Settlement — Report on Unresolved Issues — Filing. [Applicable to Injuries Occurring Prior to July 1, 2014.]

   A dispute may be resolved either in whole or in part at the benefit review conference. If the conference results in the resolution of some of the disputed issues by mutual agreement or in a settlement, the workers' compensation specialist shall reduce the agreement or the settlement to writing. The workers' compensation specialist and each party shall sign the agreement or settlement. A settlement is not effective unless it is approved in accordance with § 50-6-206, and takes effect on the date approved.   The specialist shall note in a report on unresolved issues required by this section the failure of any party to furnish documents to the specialist on request by the specialist, to cooperate in scheduling, or to provide a representative who possessed settlement authority in attendance at the conference.     If the dispute is not entirely resolved at the benefit review conference, the workers' compensation specialist shall prepare a written report that also includes:  A statement of each agreed upon issue; and   A statement of each issue raised but not agreed upon.     The workers' compensation specialist shall file the signed agreement and the report with the commissioner and the court, as appropriate. Any party filing an action with a court of competent jurisdiction shall notify the division of the filing at the time of the filing. After receiving the notice, the division shall file within seven (7) days with such court any report on unresolved issues pursuant to this section resulting from a benefit review conference.
TN Code § 50-6-242 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation|§ 50-6-242. Award of Permanent Partial Disability Benefits for Permanent Medical Impairment in Certain Cases — Illegal Immigrants Ineligible. [Applicable to Injuries Occurring Prior to July 1, 2014.]

  For injuries that occur on or after August 1, 1992, and prior to July 1, 2004, notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the trial judge may award employees permanent partial disability benefits, not to exceed four hundred (400) weeks, in appropriate cases where permanent medical impairment is found and the employee is eligible to receive the maximum disability award under § 50-6-241(a)(2) or (b). In those cases the court, on the date of maximum medical improvement, must make a specific documented finding, supported by clear and convincing evidence, of at least three (3) of the following four (4) items:  The employee lacks a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma or the employee cannot read or write on a grade eight (8) level;   The employee is fifty-five (55) years of age or older;   The employee has no reasonably transferable job skills from prior vocational background and training; and   The employee has no reasonable employment opportunities available locally considering the employee's permanent medical condition.     For those injuries that occur on or after July 1, 2004, and notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary and in appropriate cases where the employee is eligible to receive the maximum permanent partial disability award under § 50-6-241(d)(1)(B) or (d)(2), the employee may receive disability benefits not to exceed the appropriate maximum number of weeks as set forth in § 50-6-207 for the type of injury sustained by the employee. In those cases, the court or the workers' compensation specialist shall make specific documented findings, supported by clear and convincing evidence, that as of the date of the award or settlement, at least three (3) of the following facts concerning the employee are true:  The employee lacks a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma or the employee cannot read or write on a grade eight (8) level;   The employee is fifty-five (55) years of age or older;   The employee has no reasonably transferable job skills from prior vocational background and training; and   The employee has no reasonable employment opportunities available locally considering the employee's permanent medical condition.     Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to injuries sustained on or after July 1, 2009, by an employee who is not eligible or authorized to work in the United States under federal immigration laws.
TN Code § 50-6-243 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation|§ 50-6-243. Agreements to Receive Payments Greater Than the Schedule Provides — Applicability. [Applicable to Injuries Occurring Prior to July 1, 2014.]

  An employee may sign an agreement before or after an injury resulting in temporary total disability due to an accident arising out of and in the course of employment in which the employee may receive from the employer, for up to six (6) months after the date of injury, an amount greater than the schedule of compensation for the injury in § 50-6-207. Any agreed payment that is greater than the amount provided by § 50-6-207 shall be credited as an offset to any subsequent award or settlement for permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, or death benefits.   If the employee's temporary total disability exceeds six (6) months from the date of injury, any payments greater than those provided by § 50-6-207, made after that date, shall not be credited as an offset to any subsequent award or settlement for permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, or death benefits.   This section applies to employees of municipalities, counties, and other governmental entities.
TN Code § 50-6-245 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation|§ 50-6-245. Judgments With Multiple Findings and Separate Awards

  If following a civil action in a workers' compensation case filed pursuant to § 50-6-225, the court enters a judgment or decree that includes multiple findings with separate awards of payment to the employee, the following shall apply:  If the employer, insurer or employee appeals one (1) or more of the findings but not all, any payments owed to the employee as the result of a finding not appealed shall be due and payable to the employee when the time for appealing the judgment or decree has expired.   If the employer, insurer or employee appeals more than one (1) of the findings and the supreme court grants permission to appeal as to at least one (1) of the findings appealed but not all, any payments owed to the employee as the result of a finding not appealed or for which permission to appeal was not granted shall be due and payable to the employee when the time for appealing the judgment or decree has expired.      When the time for filing an appeal has expired under subdivision (a)(1), the court, unless in its discretion it determines otherwise, shall enter final judgment pursuant to Rule 54.02 of the Rules of Civil Procedure as to all findings not appealed.   When the time for filing an appeal has expired under subdivision (a)(2), the supreme court, unless in its discretion it determines otherwise, shall issue a mandate pursuant to Rule 42 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure as to all findings for which permission to appeal was not granted.
TN Code § 50-6-246 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation|§ 50-6-246. Rules and Regulations Governing Medical Impairment Rating. [Applicable to Injuries Occurring Prior to July 1, 2014.]

 To assure employees, employers and the department have the information necessary to resolve a workers' compensation claim and to effectuate the legislative intent of § 50-6-241, the commissioner of labor and workforce development shall establish rules, in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to govern the provision of a medical impairment rating required by § 50-6-204(d)(3)(A). The commissioner shall promulgate these rules in conjunction with the advisory council on workers' compensation. The rules required by this section shall take effect on October 1, 2008. The commissioner is authorized to use emergency rules under former § 4-5-209(a)(4) or emergency rules under § 4-5-208, as appropriate, in order to have such rules in effect no later than October 1, 2008.
TN Code § 50-6-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-301. “Occupational Diseases” Defined. [Applicable to Injuries Occurring Prior to July 1, 2014.]

  As used in this chapter, “occupational diseases” means all diseases arising out of and in the course of employment. A disease shall be deemed to arise out of the employment only if:  It can be determined to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment;   It can be fairly traced to the employment as a proximate cause;   It has not originated from a hazard to which workers would have been equally exposed outside of the employment;   It is incidental to the character of the employment and not independent of the relation of employer and employee;   It originated from a risk connected with the employment and flowed from that source as a natural consequence, though it need not have been foreseen or expected prior to its contraction; and   There is a direct causal connection between the conditions under which the work is performed and the occupational disease. Diseases of the heart, lung, and hypertension arising out of and in the course of any type of employment shall be deemed to be occupational diseases.     Cumulative trauma conditions, hearing loss, carpal tunnel syndrome, and all other repetitive motion conditions shall not be considered an occupational disease unless such conditions arose primarily out of and in the course and scope of employment. The opinion of the physician, selected by the employee from the employer's designated panel of physicians pursuant to §§ 50-6-204(a)(4)(A) or (a)(4)(B), shall be presumed correct on the issue of causation but said presumption shall be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.
TN Code § 50-6-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-302. Retroactivity — Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis, Effect of Federal Law

  An occupational disease that an employee had on March 12, 1947, shall not be covered under this chapter. An employee has an occupational disease within the meaning of this chapter if the disease or condition has developed to such an extent that it can be diagnosed as an occupational disease. In every suit for compensation benefits, the burden shall be on the employee to prove that the employee did not have, as of that date, the occupational disease for which the employee is seeking compensation.   In considering whether an employee has the occupational disease of coal worker's pneumoconiosis and is totally disabled or dies from coal worker's pneumoconiosis, all the presumptions, criteria and standards contained in or promulgated by reason of the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, Pub. L. No. 91-173, compiled in 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq., specified as the basis for determining eligibility of applicants for benefits because of the disease or its effects shall be used and be applicable under this chapter, and where in a proceeding under this chapter for benefits it is determined the employee or the employee's dependents would be entitled to benefits under the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, and the Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-303, compiled in 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq., the employee or the employee's dependents by reason of the determination shall be considered totally disabled from coal worker's pneumoconiosis and its effects, under this chapter the same as if the employee, or the employee's dependents, establishes the right to recover benefits based upon a total disability from coal worker's pneumoconiosis, or death by reason of coal worker's pneumoconiosis under the laws of this state.
TN Code § 50-6-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-303. Compensation and Benefits

   When the employer and employee are subject to this chapter, the partial or total incapacity for work or the death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease as defined in § 50-6-301 [Applicable only to injuries occurring prior to July 1, 2014. See the Compiler's Notes.], shall be treated as the happening of an injury by accident or death by accident, and the employee, or in case of the employee's death, the employee's dependents, shall be entitled to compensation as provided in this chapter.   An employee who has an occupational disease shall be entitled to the same hospital, medical and miscellaneous benefits as an employee who has a compensable injury by accident, and, in the event of death, the same funeral benefit shall be paid as in the case of death from a compensable accident.      An employee totally disabled due to coal workers' pneumoconiosis shall be paid benefits during disability as provided for by the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, compiled in 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq.   In accordance with the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, if the employee has one (1) or more dependents, the payments shall be increased fifty percent (50%) of such payments for the first dependent, seventy-five percent (75%) for two (2) dependents, and one hundred percent (100%) for three (3) or more dependents.   In case of death of an employee receiving benefits under this chapter, benefits shall be paid to that employee's surviving spouse and any dependents in the same manner provided in the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as applicable to employees suffering from coal workers' pneumoconiosis.   Benefits paid under this subsection (b) shall not be subject to the maximum compensation limitations set forth in §§ 50-6-205, 50-6-207(1), (3) and (4), 50-6-209, 50-6-210(e)(10) or any other sections of this chapter, but the maximum compensation limitations shall be controlled exclusively by the maximum compensation benefits and limitations established under the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as applicable to employees suffering from coal workers' pneumoconiosis.   The minimum compensation limitations for employees suffering from coal workers' pneumoconiosis shall be no less than those set forth in the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969.
TN Code § 50-6-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-304. Last Employer Liable

 When an employee has an occupational disease, the employer in whose employment the employee was last injuriously exposed to the hazards of the disease, and the employer's insurance carrier, if any, at the time of the exposure, shall alone be liable, for the occupational disease, without right to contribution from any prior employer or insurance carrier.
TN Code § 50-6-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-305. Notice of Contraction of Disease and Claim for Compensation

  Within thirty (30) days after the first distinct manifestation of an occupational disease, the employee, or someone in the employee's behalf, shall give written notice thereof to the employer in the same manner as is provided in the case of a compensable accidental injury.   This section shall not apply to claims for total disability or death due to or resulting from an asbestos-related disease or coal worker's pneumoconiosis.
TN Code § 50-6-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-306. Statute of Limitations

  The right to compensation for an occupational disease or a claim for death benefits as a result of an occupational disease shall be forever barred, unless a claim is initiated pursuant to § 50-6-203; provided, however, that the applicable time limitation period or periods shall commence as of the date of the beginning of the incapacity for work resulting from an occupational disease or upon the date death results from the occupational disease; provided, further, that if upon the date of the death of the employee the employee's claim has become barred, the claim of the employee's dependent or dependents shall likewise be barred, and in that case the claim shall be barred whether or not the employer gives the notice required by § 50-6-224(2) [Applicable only to injuries occurring prior to July 1, 2014. See the Compiler's Notes.].   A claim for benefits or death due to coal worker's pneumoconiosis shall be timely filed if the claim is instituted pursuant to § 50-6-203 within three (3) years of the discovery of total disability or the date of death, as the case may be.
TN Code § 50-6-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 3 - Occupational Diseases|§ 50-6-307. Waiver of Compensation for Aggravation of Condition

   When an employee, or prospective employee, though not incapacitated for work, is found to be affected by or susceptible to a specific occupational disease, the employee or prospective employee may, subject to the approval of the workers' compensation bureau of the department of labor and workforce development, be permitted to waive in writing compensation for any aggravation of the employee's or prospective employee's condition that may result from the employee's or prospective employee's working or continuing to work in the same or similar occupation for the same employer or for another employer; provided, that this provision shall not apply to specific occupational diseases on which waivers are prohibited by the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, compiled in 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq.   All provisions of this chapter, with respect to accidents shall be applicable to the coverage provided in this part for occupational diseases, except as otherwise provided in this part.     When an employee or prospective employee has a prior history of heart disease, heart attack or coronary failure or occlusion, the employee or prospective employee may be permitted to waive in writing compensation from the employee's or prospective employee's employer or future employer for claims growing out of an aggravation or repetition of the condition, the waiver to be evidenced by filing with the administrator a written instrument to which shall be attached a copy of a medical statement giving the prior history of the condition, and in all those cases claims for workers' compensation benefits growing out of an aggravation or repetition of the condition by the employee or the employee's dependents shall be barred.   No employer shall require the execution of a waiver by any employee who was at work on March 17, 1961, unless the employee subsequently suffers a heart condition.
TN Code § 50-6-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 50 - Employer and Employee|Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law|Part 4 - Insurance|§ 50-6-401. Authority to Write Insurance — Tax

    Every person, partnership, association, organization or corporation, whether organized under the laws of this or any other state or country, that has or may hereafter comply with the laws of this state and is authorized to write accident or indemnity insurance in this state shall be authorized and empowered to write workers' compensation insurance under the terms and provisions of this part, and likewise every reciprocal and mutual insurance association or corporation shall have the same privileges; provided, that any such entity offering workers' compensation insurance shall be required to offer medical benefits coverage for paid-on-call and volunteer firefighters.   For purposes of this subdivision (a)(1), “volunteer firefighter” means any member or personnel of a fire department, volunteer fire department, rescue squad or volunteer rescue squad, including, but not limited to, a junior member, a board member or an auxiliary member of the department or squad.     An entity offering workers' compensation insurance shall offer coverage for members of rescue squads on similar terms and conditions as coverage available to full-time paid firefighters or emergency medical services personnel.      All insurance carriers provided for by this section shall be subject to a tax of four percent (4%) on premiums collected for workers' compensation insurance, and a surcharge of four tenths of one percent (0.4%) of the premiums, the surcharge to be earmarked for the administration of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Act, compiled in chapter 3 of this title, and this shall be in lieu of any other tax on premiums for the writing of the business of workers' compensation insurance now provided for by law.   The surcharge of four tenths of one percent (0.4%) on the tax on workers' compensation insurance premiums levied by this section shall not apply to any employer who employs ten (10) or fewer employees unless the employer is in the business of construction or manufacturing.     Of the funds collected pursuant to subsection (b), a sum sufficient shall be allocated from and equal to an amount not greater than fifty percent (50%) of the revenues derived from the premium tax levied pursuant to this section, and shall be paid into the subsequent injury and vocational recovery fund created in § 50-6-208, to provide payments for the benefits provided in § 50-6-208.