Southerncare, Inc. v. Cowart

I concur in that aspect of the main opinion discussing the nature of the medical benefits awarded to Margaret Cowart. I concur in the result as to the remaining aspects of the main opinion.

Medical Causation

Before the legislature amended the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, in 1992, the appellate courts of this state reviewed workers’ compensation judgments under the standard of review applicable to petitions for a writ of certiorari. See 2 Terry A. Moore, Alabama Workers’ Compensation § 26:12 (West 1998). Under that standard, factual findings of…