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LINDSEY E. HOFFMAN v. HCA HEALTH SERVICES OF TENNESSEE, INC., D/B/A TRISTAR SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER, ET AL.

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 12, 2025

Court: TN Workers Comp Appeals Board

Attorneys 1: Ashley B. McGee, Nashville, Tennessee, for the employee-appellant, Lindsey E. Hoffman.

Attorneys 2: Taylor R. Pruitt and Catheryne L. Grant, Brentwood, Tennessee, for the employer-appellee, HCA Health Services of Tennessee, Inc., d/b/a TriStar Summit Medical Center.

Judge(s): WEAVER

The employee challenges the trial court’s determination that she did not give the employer timely notice of her alleged work-related mental injury. The employee alleged she suffered a mental injury due to a series of incidents that occurred in the course and scope of her work as an emergency medical clinical pharmacist. Although the employer acknowledged it was aware that the security incidents she reported had occurred, it denied that it had received written notice of a work injury or had actual knowledge that the employee was alleging a mental injury as a result of those incidents. After an expedited hearing, the trial court determined the employee had not provided proper notice and was thus unlikely to prevail at trial in establishing an entitlement to disability or medical benefits, and the employee appealed. Having carefully reviewed the record, we affirm the decision of the trial court and remand the case.

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