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6-5-502
Section 6-5-502 Limitation periods for product liability actions. (a) All product liability
actions against an original seller must be commenced within the following time limits and
not otherwise: (1) Except as specifically provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of this
section, within one year of the time the personal injury, death, or property
damage occurs; and (2) Except as specifically provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of
this section, each element of a product liability action shall be deemed to accrue at the
time the personal injury, death, or property damage occurs; (b) Where the personal
injury, including personal injury resulting in death, or property damage
(i) either is latent or by its nature is not discoverable in the exercise of reasonable diligence
at the time of its occurrence, and (ii) is the result of ingestion of or exposure to some
toxic or harmful or injury-producing substance, element or particle, including radiation,
over a period of time as opposed...
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6-5-530
Section 6-5-530 Liability for damages. (a) In any civil action for personal injury,
death, or property damage caused by a product, regardless of the type of claims alleged or
the theory of liability asserted, the plaintiff must prove, among other elements, that the
defendant designed, manufactured, sold, or leased the particular product the use of which
is alleged to have caused the injury on which the claim is based, and not a similar
or equivalent product. Designers, manufacturers, sellers, or lessors of products not identified
as having been used, ingested, or encountered by an allegedly injured party may not be held
liable for any alleged injury. A person, firm, corporation, association, partnership,
or other legal or business entity whose design is copied or otherwise used by a manufacturer
without the designer's express authorization is not subject to liability for personal
injury, death, or property damage caused by the manufacturer's product, even if use
of the design is...
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41-9-70
Section 41-9-70 Limitation on amount of award for personal injury or death. The
Board of Adjustment shall not fix a greater amount to be paid on any claim for death or personal
injuries than the limits fixed in Chapter 5 of Title 25 for injuries, loss of time, medical
attendance or death; provided, that convicts shall be considered as receiving the minimum
wages mentioned in Chapter 5 of Title 25. (Acts 1935, No. 546, p. 1164; Code 1940, T. 55,
§336.)...
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25-6-1
Section 25-6-1 Liability of master or employer; effect of servant's or employee's knowledge
of defect or negligence causing injury. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, when
a personal injury is received by a servant or employee in the service or business
of the master or employer, the master or employer is liable to answer in damages to such servant
or employee, as if he were a stranger and not engaged in such service or employment, provided
such liability is enforced in a court of competent jurisdiction, in the cases following: (1)
When the injury is caused by reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works,
machinery or plant connected with or used in the business of the master or employer. (2) When
the injury is caused by reason of the negligence of any person in the service or employment
of the master or employer who has any superintendence intrusted to him, while in the exercise
of such superintendence. (3) When such injury is caused by reason of the negligence
of...
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6-5-702
Section 6-5-702 Compliance with contract documents. During the course of construction, a contractor
who constructs, maintains, or repairs a highway, road, street, or bridge for the awarding
authority is not liable to a claimant for personal injury, property damage,
or death arising from the performance of such construction, maintenance, or repair, if, at
the time of the personal injury, property damage, or death, the contractor was
in compliance with contract documents material to the condition, including the traffic control
plan, that was the proximate cause of the personal injury, property damage,
or death unless following the plans and specifications would result in a dangerous condition
that should have appeared to be defective to a reasonably prudent contractor or that the contractor
should have known that following the plans and specifications could create a dangerous condition
that caused the injury or death. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §3.)...
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25-5-31
Section 25-5-31 Right of action for damages for injuries or death of employee. When personal
injury or death is caused to an employee by an accident arising out of and in the course
of his employment, of which injury the actual or lawfully imputed negligence of the
employer is the natural and proximate cause, he, or in case of death, his personal
representative, for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin, shall receive
compensation by way of damages therefor from the employer; provided, that the injury
or death was not caused by the wilful misconduct of the employee or was not due to misconduct
on his part, as defined in Section 25-5-51. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206; Code 1923, §7534;
Code 1940, T. 26, §253.)...
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25-5-80
Section 25-5-80 Limitation period for claims or actions for compensation. In case of a personal
injury not involving cumulative physical stress, all claims for compensation under
this article shall be forever barred unless within two years after the accident the parties
shall have agreed upon the compensation payable under this article or unless within two years
after the accident one of the parties shall have filed a verified complaint as provided in
Section 25-5-88. In cases involving personal injury due to cumulative physical
stress, compensation under this article shall be forever barred unless within two years after
the date of the injury one of the parties shall have filed a verified complaint as
provided in Section 25-5-88. In cases involving claims for lost earning capacity under Section
25-5-57(a)(3)i., other than those involving cumulative physical stress, following termination
of employment as outlined therein, compensation under this article and Article 4 shall be
forever...
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26-23E-13
Section 26-23E-13 Civil action for damages. Any person who can demonstrate personal
injury, including physical injury, emotional distress, or mental anguish, where
such injury has resulted from the failure of an abortion or reproductive health center
to conform to the requirements of this chapter, may maintain a civil action for damages against
the abortion or reproductive health center and against the administrator of the facility.
(Act 2013-79, p. 165, §13.)...
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11-47-192
Section 11-47-192 Filing of statement as to manner of injury, damages claimed, etc.
No recovery shall be had against any city or town on a claim for personal injury
received, unless a sworn statement be filed with the clerk by the party injured or his personal
representative in case of his death stating substantially the manner in which the injury
was received, the day and time and the place where the accident occurred and the damages claimed.
(Code 1907, §1275; Code 1923, §2031; Code 1940, T. 37, §504.)...
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6-5-706
Section 6-5-706 Improper maintenance following conclusion of project. A contractor shall bear
no civil liability to a claimant for personal injury, property damage, or death
which occurs subsequent to the conclusion of the project where the proximate cause of the
personal injury, property damage, or death is occasioned by a failure of the
awarding authority to properly maintain the roadway or any of its features, including shoulders,
unless either: (1) A contractor contracts in whole or in part with the awarding authority
to maintain the roadway, or any of its features, including shoulders, or project in question.
(2) The contractor undertakes, independent of a contract, to maintain a roadway or any of
its features, including shoulders. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, §7.)...
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