ATTALLA HEALTH CARE, INC. v. Kimble

PITTMAN, Judge.

Attalla Health Care, Inc. (“the employer”), appeals from a judgment of the Eto-wah Circuit Court awarding Teresa Kim-ble (“the employee”) benefits pursuant to the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act, § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975. Ex mero mot'ii,, we dismiss the appeal as untimely.

The employee sued the employer in March 2006, seeking an award of workers’ compensation benefits with respect to a neck and back injury that she allegedly had sustained in September 2005. The employer answered the complaint in late March 2006, but it later amended its answer in January 2007 to plead…