Beck v. State

OPINION

DROWOTA, Chief Justice.

In this workers’ compensation case, the employer, the State of Tennessee, appeals from the Claims Commission’s award of benefits for a mental disability incurred when Plaintiff, a driver’s license examiner, was assaulted on the premises of her employer’s Driver's License Testing Center. The State insists that the assault was not a sufficiently acute, sudden, or unexpected emotional stress to support the finding of “injury by accident” and argues that the assault did not arise out of Plaintiff's employment. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of…