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25-5-59
Section 25-5-59 Waiting period for compensation; penalty for overdue compensation payments.
(a) For purposes of this article, except for scheduled injuries as provided in Section 25-5-57(a)(3),
compensation for the first three days of disability shall not be payable, nor shall compensation
be paid in any case unless the employer has actual knowledge of the injury or is notified
thereof within the period specified in Section 25-5-78. (b) Compensation shall begin with
the fourth day after disability, and if the disability from the injury exists for a
period as much as 21 days, compensation for the first three days after the injury shall
be added to and payable with the first installment due the employee after the expiration of
the 21 days. If any installment of compensation payable is not paid without good cause within
30 days after it becomes due, there shall be added to the unpaid installment an amount equal
to 15 percent thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in...
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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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25-5-68
for permanent partial and temporary total disability in connection with a disability scheduled
in subdivisions (1) and (3) of subsection (a) of Section 25-5-57 or except as provided in
subsection (f), shall the total amount of compensation payable for an accident or an occupational
disease exceed the product of 500 times the maximum weekly benefit applicable on the date
of the accident. (e) The minimum and maximum benefits that are in effect on the date of the
accident which results in injury or death shall be applicable for the full period during
which compensation is payable. (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the
compensation benefits payable to a surviving dependent child of a law enforcement officer
or firefighter who dies on or after January 1, 2018, as a result of injuries received while
engaged in the performance of his or her duties shall not discontinue at least until the dependent
child reaches the age of 18 years. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206;...
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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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36-27-16
Section 36-27-16 Retirement, etc., of employees; retirement allowances. (a)(1) RETIREMENT,
ETC., OF EMPLOYEES GENERALLY; ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS. a. Any Tier I plan
member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 60 and any Tier II plan
member who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 62 may retire upon written
application to the Board of Control setting forth at what time, not less than 30 days nor
more than 90 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof, he or she desires to be
retired; provided, that any such member who became a member on or after October 1, 1963, shall
have completed 10 or more years of creditable service; provided further, that a Tier I plan
member employed as a state policeman shall be eligible to file application for service retirement
upon attaining age 52 and a Tier II plan member employed as a state policeman or employed
as a correctional officer, firefighter, or law enforcement officer as defined...
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16-25-14
Section 16-25-14 Retirement of members; benefits generally. (a)(1) Any Tier I plan member who
withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 60 and any Tier II plan member who
withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 62, or in the case of a Tier II plan
member who is a correctional officer, firefighter, or law enforcement officer as defined in
Section 36-27-59, who withdraws from service upon or after attainment of age 56 with at least
ten years of creditable service as a correctional officer, firefighter, or law enforcement
officer may retire upon written application to the Board of Control setting forth at what
time, not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days subsequent to the execution and filing thereof,
he or she desires to be retired; provided, that any such member who became a member on or
after October 1, 1963, shall have completed 10 or more years of creditable service. (2) Any
Tier I plan member who has attained age 60 and any Tier II plan member who...
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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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25-4-78
Section 25-4-78 Disqualifications for benefits. An individual shall be disqualified for total
or partial unemployment for any of the following: (1) LABOR DISPUTE IN PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.
For any week in which an individual's total or partial unemployment is directly due to a labor
dispute still in active progress in the establishment in which he or she is or was last employed.
For the purposes of this section only, the term labor dispute includes any controversy concerning
terms, tenure, or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation
of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions
of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer
and employee. This definition shall not relate to a dispute between an individual worker and
his or her employer. (2) VOLUNTARILY QUITTING WORK. If an individual has left his or her most
recent bona fide work voluntarily without good...
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45-49A-81.10
Section 45-49A-81.10 Pension eligibility for certain employees - 20 years of service. (a) Any
employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the
service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting a major
fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and who is then employed by the city,
upon his or her making application to the city council of the city, shall be retired from
service as an employee without medical examination or disability. Any employee who has been
in the service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting
a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and whose employment has
been terminated prior to his or her making application for retirement from service as an employee
of the city shall be entitled to make application for retirement as an employee without medical
examination or disability as if he or she were yet an employee of the...
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