Strength v. Alabama Dept. of Finance

William L. Strength, Jr., Martha S. Strength, and Charles L. Carroll appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the Division of Risk Management, a division of the Alabama Department of Finance ("the DRM"), in an action filed by the DRM seeking a declaration of the extent of its liability to indemnify Carroll from the State Employees' Liability Insurance Fund. We affirm in part; reverse in part; and remand.

In 1983, the legislature enacted Act No. 83-521, 1983 Ala. Acts 809, which established the State Employees' Liability Insurance Fund ("the Fund"), in order to "provide for the…