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6-5-530
Section 6-5-530 Liability for damages. (a) In any civil action for personal injury, death,
or property damage caused by a product, regardless of the type of claims alleged or the theory
of liability asserted, the plaintiff must prove, among other elements, that the defendant
designed, manufactured, sold, or leased the particular product the use of which is alleged
to have caused the injury on which the claim is based, and not a similar or equivalent product.
Designers, manufacturers, sellers, or lessors of products not identified as having been used,
ingested, or encountered by an allegedly injured party may not be held liable for any alleged
injury. A person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or other legal or business
entity whose design is copied or otherwise used by a manufacturer without the designer's express
authorization is not subject to liability for personal injury, death, or property damage caused
by the manufacturer's product, even if use of the design is...
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6-5-521
Section 6-5-521 "Product liability action" defined. (a) A "product liability
action" means any action brought by a natural person for personal injury, death, or property
damage caused by the manufacture, construction, design, formula, preparation, assembly, installation,
testing, warnings, instructions, marketing, packaging, or labeling of a manufactured product
when such action is based upon (1) negligence, (2) innocent or negligent misrepresentation,
(3) the manufacturer's liability doctrine, (4) the Alabama extended manufacturer's liability
doctrine as it exists or is hereafter construed or modified, (5) breach of any implied warranty,
or (6) breach of any oral express warranty and no other. A product liability action does not
include an action for contribution or indemnity. (b) No product liability action may be asserted
or may be provided a claim for relief against any distributor, wholesaler, dealer, retailer,
or seller of a product, or against an individual or business entity...
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6-5-501
Section 6-5-501 Definitions. The following definitions are applicable in this division: (1)
ORIGINAL SELLER. Any person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or other legal or
business entity, which in the course of business or as an incident to business, sells or otherwise
distributes a manufactured product (a) prior to or (b) at the time the manufactured product
is first put to use by any person or business entity who did not acquire the manufactured
product for either resale or other distribution in its unused condition or for incorporation
as a component part in a manufactured product which is to be sold or otherwise distributed
in its unused condition. (2) PRODUCT LIABILITY ACTION. Any action brought by a natural person
for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by the manufacture, construction, design,
formula, preparation, assembly, installation, testing, warnings, instructions, marketing,
packaging, or labeling of a manufactured product when such action is...
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25-5-11
Section 25-5-11 Actions against third parties jointly liable with employers for injuries or
death; actions for injury or death resulting from willful conduct; attorney's fees in settlements
with third parties. (a) If the injury or death for which compensation is payable under Articles
3 or 4 of this chapter was caused under circumstances also creating a legal liability for
damages on the part of any party other than the employer, whether or not the party is subject
to this chapter, the employee, or his or her dependents in case of death, may proceed against
the employer to recover compensation under this chapter or may agree with the employer upon
the compensation payable under this chapter, and at the same time, may bring an action against
the other party to recover damages for the injury or death, and the amount of the damages
shall be ascertained and determined without regard to this chapter. If a party, other than
the employer, is a workers' compensation insurance carrier of the...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby
agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation
Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and
cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of
consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term
care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under
the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review
of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related
thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states;
4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying
the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus Lines Insurance
Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions
mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE WHEREAS, with
regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple states,
the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted and
Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject
to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any
law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted
Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another
State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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36-18-37
Section 36-18-37 Immunity from civil liability. (a) Neither the Director of the Alabama Department
of Forensic Sciences nor any person designated by the director for the purposes of taking,
collecting, storing, analyzing or testing DNA samples shall incur any civil liability when
such taking, collecting, storing, analyzing or testing is performed according to rules or
regulations promulgated or adopted by the director, and (b) The alleged damage or injury was
not caused by willful or wanton conduct by the director or the director's designated person.
(Acts 1994, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 94-804, p. 109, ยง18.)...
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34-24-533
Section 34-24-533 Organization and operation of the interstate commission. (a) The interstate
commission, by a majority of commissioners present and voting, shall adopt bylaws to govern
its conduct as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the compact within
12 months of the first interstate commission meeting. (b) The interstate commission shall
elect or appoint annually from among its commissioners a chairperson, a vice chairperson,
and a treasurer, each of whom shall have such authority and duties as may be specified in
the bylaws. The chairperson, or in the chairperson's absence or disability, the vice chairperson,
shall preside at all meetings of the interstate commission. (c) Officers selected in subsection
(b) shall serve without remuneration from the interstate commission. (d) The officers and
employees of the interstate commission shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally
or in their official capacity, for a claim for damage to or loss of...
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27-31A-2
Section 27-31A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER.
The Insurance Commissioner of this state or the commissioner, director, or superintendent
of insurance in any other state. (2) COMPLETED OPERATIONS LIABILITY. Liability arising out
of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site which is not owned or
controlled by either of the following: a. Any person who performs that work. b. Any person
who hires an independent contractor to perform that work, but shall include liability for
activities which are completed or abandoned before the date of the occurrence giving rise
to the liability. (3) DOMICILE. For purposes of determining the state in which a purchasing
group is domiciled: a. For a corporation, the state in which the purchasing group is incorporated.
b. For an unincorporated entity, the state of its principal place of...
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44-2-10
Section 44-2-10 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact for Juveniles is enacted into law and
entered into with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially
as follows: THE INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR JUVENILES Article I. Purpose. The compacting states
to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the proper supervision
or return of juveniles, delinquents and status offenders who are on probation or parole and
who have absconded, escaped or run away from supervision and control and in so doing have
endangered their own safety and the safety of others. The compacting states also recognize
that each state is responsible for the safe return of juveniles who have run away from home
and in doing so have left their state of residence. The compacting states also recognize that
Congress, by enacting the Crime Control Act, 4 U.S.C. Section 112 (1965), has authorized and
encouraged compacts for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in the...
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