In what could be seen as a rare win for the claimants’ bar in Tennessee, the state Supreme Court upheld a $50,500 award of attorney fees, an amount that is almost double the workers’ compensation benefits paid to the injured worker.
Central Transport and its insurer, Cherokee Insurance Co., must now pay claimants’ attorney Drew Saulters, who represented John Earheart, a truck driver that injured his hip in 2016 then was fired two years later. The high court affirmed a ruling by the Tennessee Workers’ Compensa