Workplace Accidents

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k28t3tNjS8[/embed] You have just suffered a serious injury in a workplace accident. Confused about your rights and options? Alabama law provides several remedies, some better than others. This article will discuss the choices that may be available to you. Step 1 - Is it covered by Alabama worker's compensation law? Alabama law requires employers...

Of all the calculations and formulas used to calculate benefits and liabilities in worker's compensation case, none have proven to be as frustrating and perplexing as the formula used to determine the subrogation rights of the employer when there has been a third-party recovery by the injured employee.  Alabama Code Section 25-5-11 bestows subrogation...

If you have lost a limb while on the job, by now you have discovered Alabama's backward and out-dated system of compensation for amputation injuries occurring in the workplace. Shockingly, while most states require the employer and worker's comp carrier to pay for past and future lost wages and any vocational disability, Alabama has...