Tennessee Workers' Comp Benefit Review Process: What Attorneys Need to Know

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Whether you represent employees or employers, you must know the very latest changes in the workers' comp benefit review process from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, including changes made during the last legislative session and amendments to the Department's rules.

Now is your chance to have your workers' comp benefit review questions answered by the head of the Department's Benefit Review Program.

When you participate in the back-by-popular demand Tennessee Attorneys Memo audio conference, Tennessee Workers' Comp Benefit Review Process: What Attorneys Need to Know, you'll get answers to your specific questions -- and you'll be able to share your concerns with your peers.

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When you participate in this critical live event, you'll get straight answers to questions surrounding changes made during the last legislative session and amended Department rules, including:

• When can an employee request assistance from the Workers’ Comp Specialist?
• What is the effect of filing a request for assistance on the time for filing a request for a benefit review conference?
• When can the Division of Workers’ Compensation set a date for a benefit review conference?
• What are the consequences of an employee’s failure to appear at the benefit review conference?
• How does the administrative review process work?
  

Your speaker will also cover:

• Why? What is the legislative intent and purpose of the Benefit Review Program?
• Who? Who can use the Benefit Review Process?
• What? What functions does the Benefit Review Process perform?
• Where? Where does the Benefit Review Program have offices?
• When? How is the statute of limitations protected by using the Benefit Review Process?
• How? What are the procedures used in performing the functions of the Benefit Review Program?
  

September 18, 2008

Teresa Bullington is the Director of the Benefit Review Program of the Workers’ Compensation Division of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. She is one of the original workers’ compensation specialists hired at the commencement of the benefit review program in 1992. She became director of the program in 2000.

Ms. Bullington was licensed to practice law in Tennessee in 1992. She was licensed to practice law in Virginia in 1982 and she is certified as a Rule 31 mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Ms. Bullington received her BA from Wellesley College in 1976 and her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981.

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