EX PARTE DOLGENCORP, INC.

1060428.

13 So.3d 888 (2008)

Ex parte DOLGENCORP, INC. (In re Dolgencorp, Inc. v. Barbara Ann Gibson).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 31, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Lamar, Jr., and Rick D. Norris, Jr., of Lamar, Miller, Norris, Haggard & Christie, P.C., Birmingham, for petitioner.

Joseph C. McCorquodale of McCorquodale & McCorquodale, Jackson, for respondent.

Craig A. Alexander of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., Birmingham; and Helen Johnson Alford of Alford, Clausen & McDonald, LLC, Mobile, for amicus curiae Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, in support of the petitioner.

Leila H. Watson of Cory, Watson Crowder & DeGaris, P.C., Birmingham; and Patrick J. Ballard of Ballard Law Office, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Association for Justice, in support of the respondent.


PARKER, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this workers' compensation case to review an alleged conflict between the no-opinion affirmance of the trial court's judgment by the Court of Civil Appeals and that court's earlier decisions regarding the appropriate application of § 25-5-57(b), Ala.Code 1975, a portion of the Workers' Compensation Act, § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala Code 1975. Section 25-5-57(b) provides:

"(b) Computation of compensation; determination...

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