Flanagan Lumber Co. v. Tennison

DONALDSON, Judge.

The Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, requires an employer to pay for an “other apparatus” that is reasonably necessary for treating an employee’s injury resulting from an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment. See § 25-6-77(a), Ala.Code 1975. This appeal raises the question whether, under the particular facts of this case, a walk-in bathtub qualifies as an “other apparatus” under the Act. We conclude that it does not; thus, we reverse the judgment of the Limestone Circuit Court (“the trial court”).

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