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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25-5-51
Section 25-5-51 Right to compensation for injuries or death; grounds for denial of compensation. If an employer is subject to this article, compensation, according to the schedules hereinafter contained, shall be paid by the employer, or those conducting the business during bankruptcy or insolvency, in every case of personal injury or death of his or her employee caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, without regard to any question of negligence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no compensation shall be allowed for an injury or death caused by the willful misconduct of the employee, by the employee's intention to bring about the injury or death of himself or herself or of another, his or her willful failure or willful refusal to use safety appliances provided by the employer or by an accident due to the injured employee being intoxicated from the use of alcohol or being impaired by illegal drugs. A positive drug test conducted and evaluated...
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31-6-5
Section 31-6-5 Educational benefits for spouses of deceased or totally disabled veterans or prisoners of war. (a) Any wife or husband or unmarried widow or widower whose spouse, during their marriage: (1) Was killed or died in the line of duty or is listed as missing in action or is/was a prisoner of war while serving as a member of the armed forces; (2) Died from a disability incurred from military service; or (3) Is 100 percent permanently and totally disabled, whose permanent and total disabilities were service-connected; shall be entitled to training in any Alabama state-supported college or university for a period of five standard academic years, not to exceed 45 months or to training for the equivalent of 45 months if enrolled part-time or to training in a prescribed course in a state-supported community or technical college, and if such course does not require the full 45 months, then training for the remainder of such 45 months' entitlement may be taken at a state-supported...
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12-21-5
Section 12-21-5 Copy of hospital records - Admissibility. When the original would be admissible in any case or proceeding in a court in the state, a certified copy of the hospital records of any hospital organized or operated under or pursuant to the laws of Alabama, including records of admission, medical, hospital, occupational, disease, injury and disability histories, temperature and other charts, X rays and written interpretations thereof, pictures, photographs, files, written orders, directions, findings and reports and interpretations of physicians, doctors, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, specialists, dentists, technicians and nurses, as well as of all employees of such hospital, forming a part of such hospital records as to the health, condition, state, injuries, sickness, disease, mental, physical and nervous disorders, duration and character of disabilities, diagnosis, prognosis, progress, wounds, cuts, contusions, lacerations, breaks, loss of blood, incisions,...
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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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25-5-14
Section 25-5-14 Legislative findings and intent as to actions filed by injured employee against officers, etc., of same employer. The Legislature finds that actions filed on behalf of injured employees against officers, directors, agents, servants, or employees of the same employer seeking to recover damages in excess of amounts received or receivable from the employer under the workers' compensation statutes of this state and predicated upon claimed negligent or wanton conduct resulting in injuries arising out of and in the course of employment are contrary to the intent of the Legislature in adopting a comprehensive workers' compensation scheme and are producing a debilitating and adverse effect upon efforts to retain existing, and to attract new industry to this state. Specifically, the existence of such causes of action places this state at a serious disadvantage in comparison to the existing laws of other states with whom this state competes in seeking to attract and retain...
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16-22-17
Section 16-22-17 Payroll deductions for participation in statewide programs. (a) When used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person employed full-time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in this section and adult bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services Department District Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services Department District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; the State Board of Education as applied to the payroll office of two-year postsecondary education institutions; and the Board of Trustees of Alabama A and M University. (3) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION or ORGANIZATION. The employees' local professional organization representing the...
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25-5-31
Section 25-5-31 Right of action for damages for injuries or death of employee. When personal injury or death is caused to an employee by an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, of which injury the actual or lawfully imputed negligence of the employer is the natural and proximate cause, he, or in case of death, his personal representative, for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin, shall receive compensation by way of damages therefor from the employer; provided, that the injury or death was not caused by the wilful misconduct of the employee or was not due to misconduct on his part, as defined in Section 25-5-51. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206; Code 1923, §7534; Code 1940, T. 26, §253.)...
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25-5-335
Section 25-5-335 Types of tests; procedures for specimen collection and testing; laboratory; confirmation of tests. (a) An employer is required to conduct the following types of tests in order to qualify for the workers' compensation insurance premium discounts provided under this article: (1) An employer shall require job applicants to submit to a substance abuse test after extending an offer of employment. Limited testing of job applicants by an employer shall qualify under this article if the testing is conducted on the basis of reasonable classifications of job positions. (2) An employer shall require an employee to submit to reasonable suspicion testing. (3) An employer shall require an employee to submit to a substance abuse test if the test is conducted as part of a routinely scheduled employee fitness-for-duty medical examination that is part of the employer's established policy or that is scheduled routinely for all members of an employment classification or group. (4) If the...
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27-14-3
Section 27-14-3 Insurable interest - Personal insurance; preneed contracts. (a) Insurable interest with reference to personal insurance is an interest based upon a reasonable expectation of pecuniary advantage through the continued life, health, or bodily safety of another person and consequent loss by reason of his or her death or disability or a substantial interest engendered by love and affection in the case of individuals closely related by blood or by law. (b) An individual has an unlimited insurable interest in his or her own life, health, and bodily safety and may lawfully take out a policy of insurance on his or her own life, health, or bodily safety and have the same made payable to whomsoever he or she pleases, regardless of whether the beneficiary so designated has an insurable interest. (c) A corporation, foreign or domestic, has an insurable interest in the life or physical or mental ability of any of its directors, officers, or employees, or the directors, officers, or...
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