Bohanan v. City of Knoxville

OPINION

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., and JANICE M. HOLDER, JJ. joined.

The employee, a retired police officer, filed suit seeking workers’ compensation benefits. He alleged that his job duties caused him to develop hypertension resulting in permanent partial disability. The employee relies on the statutory presumption of causation for law enforcement officers found in Tennessee Code Annotated section 7 — 51—201(a)(1), and concedes that if the employer has rebutted the presumption, there is insufficient evidence establishing a causal…