Robert R. Wilson v. Blount Discount Pharmacy Inc., Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company, and the State of Tennessee

This is a constitutional challenge brought by Robert R. Wilson (Plaintiff) against Blount Discount Pharmacy Inc., Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company, and the State of Tennessee (Defendants), seeking a declaratory judgment that multiple provisions of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013 (Public Chapter 289) and related statutes are unconstitutional. The Plaintiff’s core argument is that the Act violates the Separation of Powers doctrine (Tenn. Const. art. II, §§ 1–2 and art. VI) by vesting exclusive original jurisdiction over workers’ compensation claims in an executive-branch administrative agency rather than an Article VI court.