2010 Tennessee Code
Title 50 - Employer And Employee
Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law
Part 1 - General Provisions
50-6-111 - Defenses not available to employer failing to secure payment of compensation.
50-6-111. Defenses not available to employer failing to secure payment of compensation.
No employer who fails to secure payment of compensation as required by this chapter, shall, in any suit brought against the employer by an employee covered by this chapter or by the dependent or dependents of the employee, to recover damages for personal injury or death arising from an accident, be permitted to defend the suit upon any of the following grounds:
(1) The employee was negligent;
(2) The injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow servant or fellow employee; or
(3) The employee had assumed the risk of the injury.
[Acts 1919, ch. 123, § 11; Shan. Supp., § 3608a160; Code 1932, § 6862; Acts 1973, ch. 379, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1980, ch. 534, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 50-911.]
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