OPINION RHYNETTE N. HURD , J. This appeal challenges (1) the trial court's factual finding that the employee was pressured to resign after incurring an on-the-job injury, and declining to cap her workers' compensation award at one and one half (1 ) times the impairment rating on that basis; (2) the total amount awarded as permanent partial disability benefits; and (3) the award of temporary total disability benefits from the date of Employee's surgery on August 14, 2014, until Appellee...
OPINION Jeffrey S. Bivins , C.J. , delivered the opinion of the court, in which, Cornelia A. Clark, and Sharon G. Lee, Holly Kirby, and Roger A. Page, JJ., joined. The trial court terminated the father's parental rights. The father timely filed a notice of appeal signed by his attorney but not signed personally by the father. The Court of Appeals filed an order directing the father to show cause why his appeal should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction for failure to comply with...
OPINION HOLLY KIRBY , Justice . In this interlocutory appeal, the trustee of a trust executed an investment/brokerage account agreement that included a provision requiring the arbitration of disputes. The trust beneficiary filed a lawsuit asserting claims against the investment broker, and the defendant broker sought to compel arbitration under the arbitration provision in the account agreement. The trial court granted the motion to compel arbitration and granted permission for this...
OPINION Cornelia A. Clark , J. , delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Jeffrey S. Bivins, C.J., and Sharon G. Lee and Holly Kirby, JJ., joined. Roger A. Page, J., Not Participating. We granted the State's appeal primarily to determine whether the intermediate appellate court erred in finding the search warrant affidavit insufficient to establish probable cause, and in doing so, to revisit the continuing vitality of State v. Jacumin , 778 S.W.2d 430 (Tenn. 1989). In Jacumin ,...
