Correll v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.

OPINION

E. RILEY ANDERSON, Sp.J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and GARY R. WADE, JJ., joined.

We accepted this appeal prior to its review by the Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel primarily to determine whether an employer’s subrogation right under Tennessee Code Annotated section 50-6-112(c) extends to the recovery an employee’s surviving spouse obtains in a products liability action filed by the employee in Georgia prior to his death. We uphold the trial court’s determination that the employer’s statutory…