So not only does TVA not have to pay for damage to property values in Roane County because of federal immunity, workers can't get their medical bills due to ash exposure paid for the same reason. TVA just paid out $137 million in bonuses but refuses to be responsible for its actions because the law says it doesn't have to?

Jacobs Engineering Group argued that it was entitled to the same immunity given to contractors in other litigation over the TVA ash spill.

U.S. district court judge Thomas Varlan agreed and dismissed the case in September.

The plaintiffs have since filed an appeal with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Lost Medicaid Funding

To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.