2010 Tennessee Code
Title 50 - Employer And Employee
Chapter 6 - Workers' Compensation Law
Part 2 - Claims and Payment of Compensation
50-6-202 - Contents and service of notice.
50-6-202. Contents and service of notice.
(a) (1) The notice required to be given of the occurrence of an accident to the employer shall state in plain and simple language the name and address of the employee, the time, place, and nature and cause of the accident resulting in injury or death, and shall be signed by the claimant or by some person on the claimant's behalf, or by any one (1) or more of the claimant's dependents if the accident resulted in death to the employee.
(2) No defect or inaccuracy in the notice shall be a bar to compensation, unless the employer can show to the satisfaction of the tribunal in which the matter is pending that the employer was prejudiced by the failure to give the proper notice, and then only to the extent of the prejudice.
(b) The notice shall be given personally to the employer or to the employer's agent or agents having charge of the business in working at which the injury was sustained by the employee.
[Acts 1919, ch. 123, § 23; Shan. Supp., § 3608a172; Code 1932, § 6873; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 50-1002.]
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