By Joey BerlinSouthern Bureau ChiefAs the chief justice of Tennessee’s new workers’ compensation administrative court, Ken Switzer will be administering a new system free of “shenanigans” that he says he refused to participate in during his previous life as a practicing attorney.When the new system, devoted solely to workers’ comp, begins handling cases on or after July 1, it will strip out something for which the Tennessee workers’ compensation system is notorious: “the race to the courthouse.”Under the current system, if a settlement can’...
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