Court Opinion

ID: 9680308
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:28:42.86408+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:27.623077
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Opinion on Petition to Rehear
We have been presented with a petition to rehear directed to the disallowance of medical expenses. It is insisted that in an occupational disease case the employee is entitled to recover for medical expenses incident to the disagnosis and treatment of the disease before the thirty day notice is given to the employer. Charnes v. Burk (1959), 205 Tenn. 371, 326 S.W.2d 657 is relied upon.
*200Under the circumstances as presented in this case, that decision has no application. The moment petitioner became aware that he was suffering from an occupational disease, he was then under a duty to consult with his employer, if it was medically feasible to do so, before incurring additional medical expenses.
In this situation, this petition to rehear does not meet the test of Rule 32 of this Court. We are content to stand on our original opinion.
The petition is denied.
Dyer, Chief Justice, Humphreys and McCanless, Justices, and Jenkins, Special Justice, concur.