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September 2022
Tennessee Appoints New
Administrator and Workers’ Compensation Judge, Plus Other Recent Developments
on the Firefighter Cancer Presumption and Mileage Reimbursement
New Administrator
Troy Haley, former Legislative
Liaison of the Bureau, is now the new administrator for the Tennessee Bureau of
Workers’ Compensation. Troy succeeds
Abbie Hudgens, who recently retired.
New Workers’ Compensation Judge
in Memphis
Administrator Troy Haley has
appointed Shaterra Reed Marion as a Judge on the Court of Workers’ Compensation
Claims, the adjudicative function within the Tennessee Bureau of Workers’
Compensation (BWC). She will be located in the Memphis office of the BWC. Judge Marion has practiced law in Tennessee since 2012, primarily in workers’
compensation and insurance defense. She has been Field Counsel in Memphis for
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company/Law Offices of Julie Bhattacharya Peak since
2014. She will replace the recently retired Judge Deana Seymour on the Court of
Workers’ Compensation Claims in Memphis.
Firefighter Cancer Presumption
Effective July 1, 2022, Tennessee added leukemia and testicular cancer
to the list of cancers (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer, colon cancer, skin
cancer, and multiple myeloma cancer) for which a presumption is created that
certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters arose out of
employment, unless the contrary is shown by a preponderance of the evidence.
Mileage Reimbursement
Injured workers are entitled to request reimbursement for their travel
expenses. Mileage reimbursement is a workers’ compensation benefit for injured
workers who must travel outside a radius of 15 miles one way from their
residence or workplace to an authorized medical provider or facility. The rate has
been updated twice in 2022. For travel dates between January 2, 2022 to
June 30, 2022, the reimbursement rate is $0.585 per mile. For travel dates from July 1, 2022 to the
present, the mileage reimbursement rate is $0.625.
For any questions, please contact:
Fredrick R. Baker, Member
Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones, PLLC
1420 Neal Street, Suite 201
P.O. Box 655
Cookeville, TN 38503-0655
Phone: 931-372-9123
Fax: 931-372-9181
fbaker@wimberlylawson.com
www.wimberlylawson.com