Old Republic Insurance Co. v. Blankenship

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This is the second appeal of a workmen’s compensation case in which the employee claims benefits for disability from coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, T.C.A. § 50-1102.

Initially petitioner contended that he was automatically entitled to total permanent disability benefits under the Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation Act because he had been awarded benefits from the Social Security Administration under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Both the Chancellor and this Court held that such an award was not binding or conclusive upon the state courts in…