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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
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 by a
worker's compensation...
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36-30-2
failure or refusal to use safety appliances provided by his or her employer or his or her willful
refusal or neglect to perform a statutory duty or any other willful violation of a law or
his or her willful breach of a reasonable rule or regulation governing the performance of
his or her duties or his or her employment of which rule or regulation he or she had knowledge.
Any peace officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or rescue squad member whose death
results proximately from an injury received while performing his or her duties shall,
for the purposes of this article, be deemed to have been killed while in the performance of
such duties. If the State Health Officer determines from all available evidence that a volunteer
firefighter, who is a member of an organized volunteer fire department registered with the
Alabama Forestry Commission, has become totally disabled as a result of any injury
received while engaged in the performance of his or her fire-fighting duties and...
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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
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 occurring
between the time of the injury and the employee's death therefrom. If the employee
is dissatisfied with the initial treating physician selected by the employer and if further
treatment is required, the employee may so advise the employer, and the employee shall be
entitled to select a second physician from a panel or list of four physicians selected by
the employer. If surgery is required and if the employee is dissatisfied with the designated
surgeon, he or she may so advise the employer, and the employee shall be...
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25-5-8
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
workers' compensation benefits for injury of employees may be insured by any combination
of life, disability, accident, health, or other insurance provided that the coverages insure
without limitation or exclusion the workers' compensation benefits of this state. (b) Option
to operate as self-insurer. An employer subject to this chapter who elects not to insure his
or her liability thereunder shall furnish satisfactory proof to the secretary of his or her
financial ability to pay directly compensation in the amount and manner and...
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32-5A-195
of alcohol or under the influence of a controlled substance to a degree which renders him or
her incapable of safely driving or under the combined influence of alcohol and a controlled
substance to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely driving. (4) Any felony
in the commission of which a motor vehicle is used. (5) Failure to stop, render aid, or identify
himself or herself as required under the laws of this state in the event of a motor vehicle
accident resulting in the death or personal injury of another. (6) Perjury or
the making of a false affidavit or statement under oath to the Secretary of the Alabama State
Law Enforcement Agency under this article or under any other law relating to the ownership
or operation of motor vehicles. (7) Conviction upon three charges of reckless driving committed
within a period of 12 months. (8) Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle belonging to another
which act does not amount to a felony. (k) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law...
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