Panel Clarifies Process for Determining Date of Worker's Mental Injury

The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel clarified the process for determining the date of a worker’s alleged mental injury. Case: Nickerson v. Knox County, No. E2020-01286-SC-R3-WC, 06/08/2021, published. Facts and procedural history: Angela Nickerson worked for the Knox County Sheriff's Department processing crime scenes as a forensics technician from 1998 until 2011. Nickerson viewed crime scenes involving the death of a child and another involving abuse and injuries to children. In 2018, Nickerson filed a workers’ compensa...