Panel Overturns Denial of Claim for Worker With Fungal Infection in Lungs

The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel overturned a denial of benefits to a worker who developed a fungal infection in his lungs after digging a trench at a landfill. Case: Butler v. Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool, No. E2017-01981-SC-R3-WC, 01/16/2019, published. Facts: Joe Butler worked as a laborer for the Oneida Water Department. In February 2013, Butler helped install a water line at the county landfill. Two days later, Butler fell ill. After he was hospitalized and underwent a lung biopsy, doctors diagnosed invasive pulmon...