Moore v. Drake Bakeries, Inc.

OPINION

REID, Chief Justice.

This workers’ compensation case presents an appeal from the trial court’s finding that the deceased employee’s personal representative was entitled to recover permanent partial disability benefits from the time of an injury, found to be compen-sable, until the time of her death, which was not related to her employment. The Tennessee’s workers’ compensation statute does not provide that an unadjudicated claim for benefits survives the non-work-related death of a worker.

The employee sustained a compensable injury on April 4, 1988. On April 7, 1990, after the employee…