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36-30-3
Section 36-30-3 Payment of compensation - Generally. The compensation payable to surviving
beneficiaries or dependents of peace officers, firefighters, or rescue squad members who are
killed under the circumstances prescribed in Section 36-30-2 shall be paid to the beneficiaries
designated by those peace officers, firefighters, or rescue squad members. If no beneficiaries
have been designated, or if none remain, the compensation shall be paid to the persons entitled
thereto without administration or to a guardian or such other person as the awarding authority
may direct for the use of the persons entitled thereto, as follows: (1) If the deceased peace
officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member leaves a dependent spouse and no other dependents
or partial dependents, the total amount of the compensation provided for in Section 36-30-2
shall be paid to the surviving spouse. (2) If the deceased peace officer, firefighter, or
rescue squad member leaves a dependent spouse and a dependent...
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36-30-1
Section 36-30-1 Definitions; dependents; persons eligible for compensation. (a) For the purposes
of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AWARDING
AUTHORITY. The State Board of Adjustment, created and existing pursuant to Article 4, Chapter
9 of Title 41. (2) COMPENSATION. The money benefits paid on account of injury or death
which occurred during the course of employment or activity as a peace officer or firefighter
and is in the nature of workers' compensation. (3) DEPENDENT CHILD. An unmarried child under
the age of 18 years, or one over the age of 18 who is physically or mentally incapacitated
from earning. (4) DIRECT AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE. Death resulting
from a heart attack or stroke caused by engaging or participating in a situation while on
duty involving nonroutine stressful or strenuous physical law enforcement, fire suppression,
rescue, hazardous material response, emergency medical service, prison...
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25-5-60
of any guardian or guardians, what portion of the compensation shall be applied for the benefit
of any child or children and may order the same paid to a guardian or custodian of the child
or children. d. Partial dependents shall be entitled to receive only that proportion of the
benefits provided for total dependents which the average amount of the earnings regularly
contributed by the deceased employee to the partial dependent, at and for a reasonable time
immediately prior to the injury, bore to the total income of the dependent during the
same time. If there is one dependent and one or more partial dependents and the dependent
is not entitled to the maximum amount of compensation provided in Section 25-5-68, there shall
be paid to the partial dependent or partial dependents that percentage of the benefit paid
to a full dependent which the contribution of the decedent to the partial dependent's support
bears to the total income of the partial dependent. Notwithstanding the...
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31-3-3
Section 31-3-3 Payment of compensation - Manner; apportionment among dependents. The compensation
payable to surviving dependents of Alabama national guardsmen who are killed under the circumstances
prescribed in Section 31-3-2 shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto, without administration,
or to a guardian or such other person as the awarding authority may direct, for the use of
the persons entitled thereto as follows: (1) If the deceased Alabama national guardsman leaves
a dependent widow and no other dependents or partial dependents the total amount of the compensation
provided for by this chapter shall be paid to such widow. (2) If the deceased Alabama national
guardsman leaves a dependent widow and a dependent child or dependent children and no other
dependents or partial dependents, then the total amount of the compensation provided for by
this chapter shall be paid to such widow for the benefit of herself and such child or children.
Or, in its discretion, the awarding...
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36-29A-9
Section 36-29A-9 Duration of benefits. (a) The compensation payable under this chapter to the
surviving spouse 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 continue upon remarriage. (b) The compensation payable under this chapter 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. (Act
2018-523, §3; Act 2019-445, §1.)...
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36-21-102
Section 36-21-102 Tuition benefits; eligibility. When a full-time law enforcement officer or
full-time firefighter employed by the state, by any county, or by any municipality, a volunteer
firefighter, or a rescue squad member is or was killed or becomes totally disabled in the
line of duty, free tuition for undergraduate study at any state college, state community college,
state junior college, state technical college, in the State of Alabama, and other costs officially
prescribed for the classes in the course of study, shall be paid for the following: (1) Any
dependent child, natural or adopted, under 21 years of age at the time of death or total disability
of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad member. (2) A spouse who has
not remarried, provided initial enrollment is within five years of the death or total disability
of the law enforcement officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or rescue squad member.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-609, p. 1058, §3; Act 99-448, p....
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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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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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36-25-1
person is associated in a manner different from the manner it affects the other members of
the class to which he or she belongs. A conflict of interest shall not include any of the
following: a. A loan or financial transaction made or conducted in the ordinary course of
business. b. An occasional nonpecuniary award publicly presented by an organization for performance
of public service. c. Payment of or reimbursement for actual and necessary expenditures for
travel and subsistence for the personal attendance of a public official or public employee
at a convention or other meeting at which he or she is scheduled to meaningfully participate
in connection with his or her official duties and for which attendance no reimbursement is
made by the state. d. Any campaign contribution, including the purchase of tickets to, or
advertisements in journals, for political or testimonial dinners, if the contribution is actually
used for political purposes and is not given under circumstances from...
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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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