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· 6/26/1995

Conatser v. Clarksville Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Citations

  • 920 S.W.2d 646
  • 1995 Tenn. LEXIS 327

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the fact that plaintiff was fired three weeks after receiving workers’ compensation was not sufficient evidence of a causal relationship
  • holding that the fact that plaintiff was fired three weeks after receiving workers' compensation was not sufficient evidence of a causal relationship
  • finding that a three-week time period between the plaintiff receiving workers’ compensation benefits and his termination was sufficient to show causation
  • termination allowed if employee is not physically able to do the work required by the job
  • dismissal three days after returning to work from injury recuperation was insufficient to show causal connection
  • in rejecting common law retaliatory discharge claim based on plaintiffs discharge three days after filing a workers’ compensation claim, the Court found plaintiff could not establish causation by relying solely on temporal proximity

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Judges: Reid, Anderson, Drowota, Birch, White

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