Dudley v. Mesa Industries’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Asphalt Hot Mix · 599 So. 2d 20 - Hubbard v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“"Based on the foregoing, we conclude that the language used by the trial court in its [order approving the settlement agreement] releasing Mesa from all claims for `compensation and vocational rehabilitation benefits' arising under the Workers' Compensation Act applied only to [the worker's] claim for workers' compensation and vocational benefits. Therefore, [the worker's] claim, which was pleaded based on § 25-5-11, survived. Consequently, based on this record, we conclude that the trial court's order that `[Mesa] be released and forever discharged from any and all claims for compensation and vocational rehabilitation benefits due or which may become due to the [worker] under the Workmen's Compensation Act of Alabama' did not adjudicate all the claims in [the worker's] lawsuit."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Ruth“"we cannot ignore the language of the order itself or the trial court's conduct after it entered that order. The wording of the [order approving the workers' compensation settlement agreement] and the trial court's allowing [the worker] to amend his complaint strongly suggest that the trial court intended for a portion of the lawsuit to continue."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Ruth“"In other words, the circuit court held it had no jurisdiction to consider the amended complaint filed after March 13, 1998. Thus, it is apparent that the trial judge thought his order releasing Mesa from the workers' compensation and vocational-rehabilitation claims also released Mesa from the claim made pursuant to § 25-5-11."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Ruth
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