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- Apr
- 2025
New Alabama Law Provides Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Education Employees
On April 24, 2025, Governor Kay Ivey signed the Mary Anne Leonard Educators' On-The-Job Injury Act into law. Prior to this new law, public education employees had no access to w…
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- Aug
- 2019
Alabama Workers’ Compensation Celebrating its Centennial Anniversary
Today marks 100 years since Governor Thomas Kilby signed bill 26-1 into law thereby creating what is now known as the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act. Back then, it was kn…
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- Oct
- 2018
Alabama Bar Association Task Force Unanimously Agrees to Proposed Changes to Workers’ Compensation Act
In May of 2017, we reported that an Alabama Circuit Court Judge issued an Order declaring the entire Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act unconstitutional. In June of 2017, we r…
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- Mar
- 2017
OSHA’s New Reporting and Anti-Retaliation Rule Now in Effect
OSHA recently implemented its new "reporting and anti-retaliation rule", which went into effect January 1, 2017. Under the new rule, certain employers must now submit injury a…
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- Jul
- 2013
Alabama Courts Consider Twilight Zone of Concurrent Jurisdiction
The Supreme Court of Alabama recently addressed preemption of the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act by the Federal Longshore and Harbors Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA) in Ferna…
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