Notice of contraction of disease and claim for compensation
Known as the Workers' Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 50-6-101 to 50-6-921 (224 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Skinner, John Matthew v. Marion Environmental, Inc. (2017)
Most recently applied in Yeoman, Damien v. Transwood Logistics, Inc. (November 2025)
Acts 1947, ch. 139, § 1; C
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.
(1) Within thirty (30) days after the first distinct manifestation of an occupational disease, the employee, or someone in the employee's behalf, shall give written notice thereof to the employer in the same manner as is provided in the case of a compensable accidental injury.
(2) This section shall not apply to claims for total disability or death due to or resulting from an asbestos-related disease or coal worker's pneumoconiosis.
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.