Hooks v. Coastal Stone Works, Inc.

DONALDSON, Judge.

An officer of a corporation may elect to become exempt from coverage under the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, specifically pursuant to § 25-5-50(b), Ala.Code 1975. This appeal presents the question whether a corporate officer who has properly signed and filed a written certification of his or her election to be exempt from coverage under the Act (“the certification of exemption”), as required by § 25-5-50(b), must re-sign and refile a certification of exemption annually in order to remain exempt in succeeding years or whether a…