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15-18-184
Section 15-18-184 Authority to maintain general liability insurance. An authority or nonprofit
entity contracting with the department under this article shall maintain appropriate liability
insurance in an amount sufficient to insure against loss resulting from bodily injury, death
or property damage, subject to the limitations on recovery of damages contained in this article
and any other immunities from civil liability or defenses established under the Constitution
of Alabama or any other section of the code or common law, to which the entities might be
entitled. The insurance may be obtained through any source available to an approving county
commission. (Acts 1991, No. 91-441, p. 795, §15; Act 2010-734, p. 1846, §1.)...
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45-17-90.10
Section 45-17-90.10 Power to sue and be sued; recovery of damages. (a) The authority may institute
and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper venue. The
authority may be sued only in the Circuit Court of Colbert County or Lauderdale County, Alabama.
The officers, directors, agents, employees, and members of the authority may not be sued for
their actions on behalf of the authority except for actions that are known by persons to be
unlawful or performed with reckless disregard for the lawfulness of such actions. (b) The
recovery of damages under any judgment against the authority shall be limited to one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) for bodily injury or death for one person in any single occurrence.
Recovery of damages under any judgment against the authority shall be limited to three hundred
thousand dollars ($300,000) in the aggregate, where more than two persons have claims or judgments
on account of a bodily injury or death arising out of...
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45-39-92.10
Section 45-39-92.10 Power to sue and be sued; recovery of damages. (a) The authority may institute
and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper venue. The
authority may be sued only in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County or Colbert County, Alabama.
The officers, directors, agents, employees, and members of the authority may not be sued for
their actions on behalf of the authority except for actions that are known by persons to be
unlawful or performed with reckless disregard for the lawfulness of such actions. (b) The
recovery of damages under any judgment against the authority shall be limited to one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) for bodily injury or death for one person in any single occurrence.
Recovery of damages under any judgment against the authority shall be limited to three hundred
thousand dollars ($300,000) in the aggregate, where more than two persons have claims or judgments
on account of a bodily injury or death arising out of...
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6-11-21
Section 6-11-21 Punitive damages not to exceed certain limits. (a) Except as provided in subsections
(b), (d), and (j), in all civil actions where an entitlement to punitive damages shall have
been established under applicable laws, no award of punitive damages shall exceed three times
the compensatory damages of the party claiming punitive damages or five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000), whichever is greater. (b) Except as provided in subsections (d) and (j), in all
civil actions where entitlement to punitive damages shall have been established under applicable
law against a defendant who is a small business, no award of punitive damages shall exceed
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or 10 percent of the business' net worth, whichever is greater.
(c) "Small business" for purposes of this section means a business having a net
worth of two million dollars ($2,000,000) or less at the time of the occurrence made the basis
of the suit. (d) Except as provided in subsection (j), in all...
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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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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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22-30A-8
Section 22-30A-8 Liability for hazardous substance sites; action by department or Attorney
General to recover expenses; administrative order or civil action; for what costs fund may
be reimbursed; contributions among liable parties; declaratory judgment action to determine
apportionment. (a) Liable parties shall be liable to the state for amounts expended for the
investigation, identification, containment and cleanup of hazardous substance sites, including
the cost of post-cleanup monitoring and maintenance of such sites. (b) The department or the
Attorney General shall act to recover for the fund the reasonable and necessary amounts expended
for the investigation, identification, containment, cleanup, monitoring and maintenance of
inactive or abandoned hazardous substance sites to the extent the department or the Attorney
General can attribute these expenditures to liable parties as set out herein. Recovery of
these expenditures by the department or the Attorney General can be either...
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45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and
events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events,
and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board
may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance
of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into
contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set
forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the
county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits
and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto...
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36-1-12
Section 36-1-12 Sovereign immunity. (a) For the purposes of this section, "education employee"
means a certified or noncertified employee of the State Board of Education or any local board
of education and an employee of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama School
of Fine Arts, the Department of Youth Services, or the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science.
(b) An officer, employee, or agent of the state, including, but not limited to, an education
employee, acting in his or her official capacity is immune from civil liability in any suit
pursuant to Article I, Section 14, of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. (c) An officer,
employee, or agent of the state, including, but not limited to, an education employee, is
immune from civil liability in his or her personal capacity when the conduct made the basis
of the claim is based upon the agent's doing any of the following: (1) Formulating plans,
policies, or designs. (2) Exercising his or her judgment in the...
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11-47-190
Section 11-47-190 When municipality liable; joint liability of other persons or corporations.
No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person
or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness,
or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in work
therefor and while acting in the line of his or her duty, or unless the said injury or wrong
was done or suffered through the neglect or carelessness or failure to remedy some defect
in the streets, alleys, public ways, or buildings after the same had been called to the attention
of the council or other governing body or after the same had existed for such an unreasonable
length of time as to raise a presumption of knowledge of such defect on the part of the council
or other governing body and whenever the city or town shall be made liable for damages by
reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence,...
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