HUDSON v. RENOSOL SEATING, LLC

2090878.

73 So.3d 1267 (2011)

J.C. HUDSON, Jr., et al. v. RENOSOL SEATING, LLC, et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

June 17, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas G. Cross, Jr. , Justin L. Smith , and Adam G. Cross of Cross , Poole & Smith, L.L.C., Tuscaloosa; Jeffrey T. Kelly of Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne, P.C., Huntsville and R. Bernard Harwood, Jr. , of Rosen Harwood, P.A., Tuscaloosa, for appellants.

Chris M. Mitchell and Stuart D. Roberts of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, for appellees Renosol Seating, LLC, Renosol Seating Properties, LLC, Lear Operations Corporation and Lear Corporation.

Joseph H. Driver , Brett A. Ross , and Virginia Gamburcuta of Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sisson, P.C., Birmingham; and, William J. Gamble of Gamble , Gamble & Calame, LLC, Selma, for appellee Renosol Corporation.

W. Lee Thuston of Burr Forman, L.L.P., Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Automobile Manufacturers Association, in support of the appellees.

Rrobert A. Huffaker and R. Austin Huffaker, Jr. , of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.A., Montgomery, for amici curiae Automobile Dealers Association of Alabama, Alabama Self-Insurers Association, and Alabama Council of Association Workers' Compensation Self-Insurers Fund, in support Of the appellees.

S. Mark Dukes of Holtsford Gilliland Higgins Hitson & Howard, P.C., Montgomery; and Patrick L.W. Sefton of Sasser, Sefton, Tipton & Davis, P.C., Montgomery, for amicus curiae Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, in support of the appellees.


PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal concerns whether a portion of the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act, Ala.Code 1975, § 25-5-1 et seq. ("the Act")—namely, the so-called "exclusivity provisions" of the Act appearing at Ala. Code 1975, §§ 25-5-52 and 25-5-53—bars certain claims in tort that have been asserted by a number of people ("the workers")1 who allegedly performed...

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