Sullivan Ex Rel. Hightower v. Edwards Oil Co.

OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court, in which

E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

We granted this appeal to define “nursing services” as used in Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-6-204(a)(l) and to determine whether the caretaking services that an injured employee’s mother provides are nursing services for which the Workers’ Compensation Law mandates the employer compensate her. The trial court found that the mother had failed to carry her burden of proof on the issue of whether she was entitled to…