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Covered Employment And Compensable Injury Concepts In Tennessee, Robert N. Covington

Vanderbilt Law Review

This article surveys the existing law of Tennessee applicable to the problems of determining what is covered employment and what constitutes a compensable injury. The survey indicates no radical differences between the law of Tennessee and that of most American jurisdictions,although there are a few troublesome problems in particular areas, such as the "Act of God" and "positional risk" cases.