25-5-114
Section 25-5-114 Rights and remedies of employees, etc., under article exclusive; civil
and criminal liability of employers, etc. The rights and remedies granted in this article
shall exclude all other rights and remedies of an employee, his personal representative, parent,
surviving spouse, dependents, or next of kin, at common law, by statute, contract, or otherwise
on account of the contraction of an occupational disease, as defined in this article, and
on account of any injury, disability, loss of service, or death resulting from an occupational
disease, as defined in this article. Except as provided in this article, no employer included
within the terms of this chapter and no officer, director, agent, servant, or employee of
such employer shall be held civilly liable for the contraction of an occupational disease,
as defined in this article, or for injury, disability, loss of service, or death of any employee
due to an occupational disease while engaged in the service or business...
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25-5-118
Section 25-5-118 Rights and remedies as to exposures to hazards of occupational disease
occurring prior to September 1, 1971. All exposures of the employee occurring prior to September
1, 1971, to the hazards of an occupational disease, as defined in this article, while in the
employ of the employer, shall be deemed for all purposes to be subject to the provisions of
this article, and the employee, his personal representative, parents, surviving spouse, dependents,
and next of kin shall be entitled to compensation or other benefits and barred from other
rights and remedies as provided in this article for exposures occurring after September 1,
1971. (Acts 1971, No. 668, p. 1379; Acts 1973, No. 1062, p. 1750, §41.)...
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25-5-194
Section 25-5-194 Rights and remedies of employees, etc., under article exclusive; civil
and criminal liability of employers, etc. The rights and remedies granted in this article
shall exclude all other rights and remedies of an employee, his personal representative, parent,
surviving spouse, dependents, or next of kin, at common law, by statute, contract, or otherwise
on account of occupational exposure to radiation and on account of any injury, disability,
loss of service, or death resulting from occupational exposure to radiation. Except as provided
in this article, no employer included within the terms of this chapter and no officer, director,
agent, servant, or employee of such employer shall be held civilly liable for the occupational
exposure to radiation or for injury, disability, loss of service, or death of any employee
due to occupational exposure to radiation while engaged in the service or business of the
employer, the cause of which occupational exposure to radiation...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases
as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the
context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION.
The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and
4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter
is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34.
"Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine,
medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account
of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children
entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the
family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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25-5-53
Section 25-5-53 Rights and remedies of employees, etc., exclusive; civil and criminal
liability of employers, etc. The rights and remedies granted in this chapter to an employee
shall exclude all other rights and remedies of the employee, his or her personal representative,
parent, dependent, or next of kin, at common law, by statute, or otherwise on account of injury,
loss of services, or death. Except as provided in this chapter, no employer shall be held
civilly liable for personal injury to or death of the employer's employee, for purposes of
this chapter, whose injury or death is due to an accident or to an occupational disease while
engaged in the service or business of the employer, the cause of which accident or occupational
disease originates in the employment. In addition, immunity from civil liability for all causes
of action except those based upon willful conduct shall also extend to the workers' compensation
insurance carrier of the employer; to a person, firm,...
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25-5-57
Section 25-5-57 Compensation for disability. (a) Compensation schedule. Following is
the schedule of compensation: (1) TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY. For injury producing temporary
total disability, the compensation shall be 66 2/3 percent of the average weekly earnings
received at the time of injury, subject to a maximum and minimum weekly compensation as stated
in Section 25-5-68, but if at the time of injury the employee received average weekly
earnings of less than the minimum stated in Section 25-5-68, then he or she shall receive
the full amount of the average weekly earnings per week. This compensation shall be paid during
the time of the disability, but at the time as a temporary total disability shall become permanent,
compensation for the continued total disability shall be governed by (a)(4) of this section
with respect to permanent total disability. Payments are to be made at the intervals when
the earnings were payable, as nearly as may be, unless the parties otherwise agree....
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25-5-115
Section 25-5-115 False written representation to employer as to previous compensation
for occupational disease. If an employee, at the time of or in the course of entering into
the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be paid, wilfully
and falsely represented himself in writing to such employer as not having previously been
compensated in damages, or under this article, because of occupational disease, as defined
in this article, such employee, his personal representative, parents, surviving spouse, dependents,
and next of kin shall be barred from compensation or other benefits provided by this article
or from recovery at common law by statute, contract, or otherwise on account of occupational
disease as defined in this article, resulting from exposure to the hazards of such disease
subsequent to such representation and while in the employ of such employer. (Acts 1971, No.
668, p. 1379.)...
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25-5-111
Section 25-5-111 Right to compensation for death or disablement. Where the employer
and employee are subject to this chapter, the disablement or death of an employee caused by
the contraction of an occupational disease, as defined in Section 25-5-110, shall be
treated as an injury by accident, and the employee or, in case of his death, his dependents
shall be entitled to compensation as provided in this article. In no case, however, shall
an employer be liable for compensation by reason of the contraction of an occupational disease,
as defined in Section 25-5-110, or for disability or death resulting therefrom unless
such disease arose out of and in the course of the employment and resulted from the nature
of the employment in which the employee was engaged. (Acts 1971, No. 668, p. 1379.)...
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25-5-117
Section 25-5-117 Limitation period for claims or actions for compensation. (a) In case
of the contraction of an occupational disease, as defined in this article, or of injury or
disability resulting therefrom, a claim for compensation, as defined in Section 25-5-1,
shall be forever barred, unless within two years after the date of the injury, as hereinafter
defined, the parties shall have agreed upon the compensation payable under this article, or
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 case of death, the claim shall
be forever barred, unless within two years after death, if death results proximately from
the occupational disease, as defined in this article, and death occurs within three years
of the date of the injury, as hereinafter defined, the parties have agreed upon the compensation
under this article, or unless within two years after death, one of the parties shall have...

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25-5-113
Section 25-5-113 Manner of compensation, etc., provided by article exclusive. No employee
of any employer subject to this article, nor the personal representative, surviving spouse,
or next of kin of any such employee shall have any right to any other method, form, or amount
of compensation or damages for the contraction of an occupational disease, as defined in this
article, or for injury, disability, loss of service, or death resulting from such disease,
arising out of and in the course of employment, or determination thereof, in any manner other
than as provided in this article. (Acts 1971, No. 668, p. 1379; Acts 1973, No. 1062, p. 1750,
§39.)...
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