WOODLAWN MEMORIAL PARK, INC. v. KEITH


70 S.W.3d 691 (2002)

WOODLAWN MEMORIAL PARK, INC. v. Roger KEITH, et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

March 1, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Geracioti and Dale A. Tipps, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Woodlawn Memorial Park, Inc.

William A. Cameron, Charles L. Hardin, and Arnold E. Lefkovitz, Cookeville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Roger Keith, individually, as Widower of Connie Keith, decedent, and as guardian of Amber Breedlove, the minor child of the decedent; Bruce Breedlove, as natural father and legal guardian of Amber Breedlove.


OPINION

WILLIAM M. BARKER, Justice.

In this workers' compensation appeal, an employee was allegedly injured in the course and scope of her employment. While purportedly seeking medical treatment for these injuries, she contracted an infection and died. The employer filed suit in the Davidson County Chancery Court claiming that no compensable injury occurred and that the employee used the excuse of an injury to seek prescription drugs for her addiction. The...

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