Woodall v. Hamlett

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

This workers’ compensation case comes before the Court by grant of a Rule 9 Interlocutory Appeal filed by the administratrix ad litem of the employee’s estate raising the issue of whether the trial court erred by calculating the commencement of death benefits and interest from 24 February 1992, the date that an accompanying tort claim was dismissed, instead of from the date of the employee’s death in accordance with T.C.A. § 50-6-205(b)(2).

The employee, Bobby Lee Glass, was killed on 10 January 1990, while in the course and scope of his employment with defendant, Van…