Clear Creek Transp., Inc. v. Peebles

Like the late Justice Richard Jones in Insurance Co. of NorthAmerica v. Citizensbank of Thomasville, 491 So.2d 880, 886 (Ala. 1986) (Jones, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), "I prepared . . . a proposed opinion dealing with [a] case as I thought it should be dealt with," but in this case, like Justice Jones in Citizensbank, I lost. Following his example, I "now set out that rejected opinion as a full expression of my views on the issues here presented." Id.

"Under the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act (`the Act'), Ala. Code 1975, § 25-5-1 et seq., `[a]ny employee whose disability…