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15-23-12
Section 15-23-12 When compensation not awarded, diminished, etc.; reconsideration of award.
(a) Compensation shall not be awarded in any of the following circumstances: (1) A claim has
been filed with the commission later than one year after the injury or death upon which the
claim is based, unless the commission finds there was good cause for the failure to file within
that time. (2) To a claimant who was the offender, or an accomplice of the offender, or who
encouraged or in any way participated in the criminally injurious conduct. (3) If the award
would unjustly benefit the offender or accomplice of the offender. (4) The criminally injurious
conduct resulting in injury or death was reported to a law enforcement officer later than
72 hours after its occurrence, unless the commission finds there was good cause for the failure
to report within that time. (b) Compensation otherwise payable to a claimant may be diminished
or denied to the extent that the economic loss is recouped from...
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15-23-15
Section 15-23-15 Amount and method of compensation; future economic loss generally; exemption
from state and local taxes, etc. (a) Compensation for work loss, replacement services loss,
dependent's economic loss, and dependent's replacement services loss may not exceed six hundred
dollars ($600) per week. (b) Compensation payable to a victim and to all other claimants sustaining
economic loss because of injury to or death of that victim may not exceed twenty thousand
dollars ($20,000) in the aggregate. (c) The commission may provide for the payment to a claimant
in a lump sum or in installments. At the request of the claimant, the commission may convert
future economic loss, other than allowable expense, to a lump sum, but only upon a finding
by the commission that the award in a lump sum will promote the interests of the claimant.
(d) An award payable in installments for future economic loss may be made only for a period
as to which the commission can reasonably determine future...
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15-23-14
Section 15-23-14 Award of compensation subrogates commission to rights of claimant as to collateral
source; funds recovered from collateral source held in trust for commission; disposition of
trust funds; notice of action to recover damages; restitution hearings. (a) If compensation
is awarded, the commission shall be subrogated to all the rights of a claimant to receive
or recover from a collateral source to the extent that compensation was awarded. (b) In the
event the claimant recovers compensation, other than under the provisions of this article,
for injuries or death resulting from criminally injurious conduct, the claimant shall retain,
as trustee for the commission, so much of the recovered funds as necessary to reimburse the
Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Fund to the extent that compensation was awarded to the
claimant from that fund. The funds retained in trust shall be promptly paid over to the commission
and deposited in the Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Fund....
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15-23-3
Section 15-23-3 Definitions. As used in this article the following words shall include, but
are not limited to the following meanings unless the context clearly requires a different
meaning: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission as created by Section
15-23-4. (2) CRIMINALLY INJURIOUS CONDUCT. Criminally injurious conduct includes any of the
following acts: a. An act occurring or attempted within the geographical boundaries of this
state which results in serious personal injury or death to a victim for which punishment by
fine, imprisonment, or death may be imposed. b. An act occurring or attempted outside the
geographical boundaries of this state in another state of the United States of America which
is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or death and which results in personal injury or death
to a citizen of this state, and shall include an act of terrorism, as defined in Section 2331
of Title 18, United States Code, committed outside of the United States,...
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41-9-62
Section 41-9-62 Claims within jurisdiction of board generally; employees of municipalities,
counties, etc., not within jurisdiction of board, etc. (a) The Board of Adjustment shall have
the power and jurisdiction and it shall be its duty to hear and consider: (1) All claims for
damages to the person or property growing out of any injury done to either the person or property
by the State of Alabama or any of its agencies, commissions, boards, institutions or departments,
with the exception of claims by employees of the state for personal injury or death arising
out of the course of employment with the State of Alabama, where such employees are covered
by an employee injury compensation program; (2) All claims for personal injuries to or the
death of any convict, and all claims for personal injuries to or the death of any employee
of a city or county board of education, or college or university, arising out of the course
of the employee's employment and where the employee is not covered...
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36-30-2
Section 36-30-2 Deaths deemed compensable; compensation for total disability; amount of compensation.
(a) In the event a peace officer, a firefighter, a volunteer firefighter who is a member of
an organized volunteer fire department registered with the Alabama Forestry Commission, or
a rescue squad member is killed, either accidentally or deliberately, or dies as a result
of injuries received while engaged in the performance of his or her duties, or dies as a direct
and proximate result of a heart attack or stroke, his or her beneficiaries or dependents shall
be entitled to compensation in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to be
paid from the State Treasury as provided in Section 36-30-3, unless such death was caused
by the willful misconduct of the officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member or was due to
his or her own intoxication or his or her willful failure or refusal to use safety appliances
provided by his or her employer or his or her willful refusal or...
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6-5-543
Section 6-5-543 Damages against health care provider to be itemized; future damages over $150,000
to be paid by periodic payments over period of years; judgment to specify payment terms; requirement
to post security or provide evidence of insurance; future damages not to be reduced to present
value; attorney's fees; termination of periodic payments; contempt of court upon continuing
pattern of failure to make payments; modification of judgment; legislative intent. (a) In
any action for injury or damages whether in contract or in tort against a health care provider
based on a breach of the standard of care the damages assessed by the trier of fact shall
be itemized as follows: (1) Past damages, (2) Future damages, (3) Punitive damages. The trier
of fact shall not reduce any future damages to present value. If the trial court determines
that any one or more of the above categories is not recoverable in the action, that category
or categories shall be omitted from the itemization. (b)...
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25-5-77
Section 25-5-77 Expenses of medical and surgical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, medicine,
etc.; medical examinations; review by ombudsman of medical services. (a) In addition to the
compensation provided in this article and Article 4 of this chapter, the employer, where applicable,
shall pay the actual cost of the repair, refitting, or replacement of artificial members damaged
as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment, and the employer,
except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act, shall pay an amount not to exceed the
prevailing rate or maximum schedule of fees as established herein of reasonably necessary
medical and surgical treatment and attention, physical rehabilitation, medicine, medical and
surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members, and other apparatus as the result of an accident
arising out of and in the course of the employment, as may be obtained by the injured employee
or, in case of death, obtained during the period...
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25-5-8
Section 25-5-8 Employers' options to secure payment of compensation. (a) Option to insure risks.
An employer subject to this chapter may secure the payment of compensation under this chapter
by insuring and keeping insured his or her liability in some insurance corporation, association,
organization, insurance association, corporation, or association formed of employers and workers
or formed by a group of employers to insure the risks under this chapter, operating by mutual
assessment or other plans or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the insurance association,
organization, or corporation shall have first had its contract and plan of business approved
in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance of Alabama and have been authorized
by the Department of Insurance to transact the business of workers' compensation insurance
in this state and under the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary,
the obligations of employers under law for...
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32-5A-195
Section 32-5A-195 Cancellation, suspension, or revocation of driver's license; grounds, procedure,
etc. (a) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is authorized to cancel
any driver's license upon determining that the licensee was not entitled to the issuance thereof
or that the licensee failed to give the correct or required information in his or her application.
Upon such cancellation, the licensee must surrender the license so cancelled. If the licensee
refuses to surrender the license, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) The privilege
of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident shall be subject
to suspension or revocation by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency in
like manner and for like cause as a driver's license issued may be suspended or revoked. (c)
The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency is further authorized, upon receiving
a record of the conviction in this state of a...
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