ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS WKRS. COMPEN. SELF INS. FUND v. Williams

This appeal concerns questions of law regarding the extraterritorial application of the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act, Ala. Code 1975, § 25-5-1 et seq. ("the Act"), as well as the right of parties paying benefits to injured employees under the auspices of the Act to recoup those parties' payments in the event that liability under the Act is demonstrated not to exist.

In June 2005, the Associated General Contractors Workers Compensation Self Insurance Fund, Alabama Branch ("the AGC Fund"), sued George Benton Williams ("the employee"), a Mississippi resident and an employee of Doster…