Penalties
Known as the Workers' Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 50-6-101 to 50-6-921 (224 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case Brock v. McWherter (1996)
Most recently applied in Oakes, Christopher v. Duracap Asphalt Paving Company, Inc. (September 2025)
Acts 1985, ch. 393, § 18; 1999, ch. 520, § 41; 2000, ch. 972, § 3; 2001, ch. 192, § 8; 2004, ch. 962, § 8; 2005, ch. 390, § 2; 2013, ch. 289, §§ 17, 18; 2014, ch. 903, § 3; 2015…
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The bureau of workers' compensation shall, by rule promulgated pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, establish and collect penalties for the following:
Failure of a covered employer to provide workers' compensation coverage or qualify as a self-insurer;
Late filing of accident reports;
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.