Tennessee Code Title 50. Employer and Employee § 50-6-802

(a) An eligible employee may request that the bureau provide the employee temporary disability benefits, medical benefits, or death benefits, pursuant to § 50-6-801(d), by submitting a request for benefits from the uninsured employers fund to the bureau no more than sixty (60) days after conclusion of the claim, including all appeals. The request shall be made on a form prescribed by the bureau, and shall be submitted to the bureau via certified mail. The eligible employee shall include a copy of the judgment with the request. Any request for benefits that does not meet the requirements of this subsection (a) shall not be considered.

(b) For claims with a date of injury that is on or after July 1, 2015, the bureau may, upon receipt of a request for benefits pursuant to subsection (a) from an eligible employee, provide the employee temporary disability benefits, medical benefits, or death benefits. The bureau shall promulgate rules, pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, setting forth the circumstances under which benefits may be paid pursuant to this part.

(c) If the bureau pays workers' compensation benefits to the injured employee, then the bureau shall pay the workers' compensation benefits to the employee from the uninsured employers fund and the amount paid to, or on behalf of, an injured employee, pursuant to this part, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars ($60,000). Of the sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), the bureau shall pay no more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for medical benefits, no more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for temporary disability benefits, and no more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for death benefits. However, if no more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) has been paid to the employee for temporary disability or medical benefits and the employee has secured a judgment for temporary disability or medical benefits in an amount greater than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), then the administrator may pay to the employee the remaining funds not exceeding a total of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for both temporary disability and medical benefits combined, exclusive of death benefits, if applicable. The administrator shall not pay benefits pursuant to this part to, or on behalf of, an employee for more than one (1) workplace injury.