Heathcoe v. Billy Barnes Enterprises

PITTMAN, Judge.

Billy Barnes Enterprises (“Barnes”) petitions this court to issue a writ of mandamus directing the Washington Circuit Court to vacate its order denying Barnes’s motion to transfer the workers’ compensation action filed by Aimee Heathcoe to the Monroe Circuit Court and to grant Barnes’s motion to transfer. We deny the petition.

Facts and Procedural History

On January 30, 2006, Heathcoe was injured in Mississippi while working as a truck driver for Barnes. Barnes acknowledged that Heathcoe’s injury was compen-sable; it paid for the medical treatment necessitated by her injuries,…