Ana R. PADILLA v. TWIN CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court,

in which JANICE M. HOLDER and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

This appeal involves the workers’ compensation liability of an employer for the unsolved fatal shooting of an employee on the employer’s premises. The employee’s surviving spouse filed suit in the Chancery Court for Davidson County seeking death benefits under Tennessee’s Workers’ Compensation Law. Following a bench trial, the trial court denied the widow’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The court concluded that the employee’s death was the result of a neutral…