Worker Pressured to Quit Job Didn't Have 'Meaningful Return to Work'

The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel upheld an uncapped award of permanent partial disability benefits to a retail worker, finding she had not had a meaningful return to work because she had been pressured to resign. Case: Hunt v. Dillard’s, No. W2016-02148-SC-WCM-WC, 12/13/2017, published. Facts: Alicia Hunt worked at the Dillard's Department Store at Wolfchase Mall in Memphis. She was in charge of running the Clinique makeup counter, and her job required standing for long periods of time, as well as bending, stooping and kneelin...