Smith v. Tippah Electric Power Ass'n

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On June 1, 2010, Lonnie Smith filed a petition to controvert with the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commission) alleging that he had suffered a compensable injury while working as a lineman for Tippah Electric Power Association (Tippah). Tippah denied the com-pensability of Smith’s injury by raising the affirmative defense that the injury resulted from Smith’s own intentional misconduct. Following a hearing where Smith and several other people that he worked with on the day of the accident provided testimony and evidence, the administrative judge…