Workers Compensation - As enacted, adds a requirement that an award of attorneys' fees and costs incurred when an employer unreasonably denies a workers' compensation claim or unreasonably fails to timely initiate any of the benefits associated with the claim must be based on a finding by the workers' compensation judge that the employer's conduct was unreasonable; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

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AMEND Senate Bill No. 1981* House Bill No. 2179

by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting:

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45.8% Uncertain

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Stage base Reported from Committee — base rate 69%, measured from TN's completed sessions
Momentum -1 47/100 from the pace of recorded action
Time since last action -22 160 days quiet

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