Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Moore

Goodyear Tire Rubber Company ("the company") appeals from a judgment calculating a 15% attorney fee in a workers' compensation action brought by Byron Moore, Jr. ("the worker"). The company provides the worker with a disability pension, which the trial court properly applied as an offset to the amount of compensation to be paid by the company pursuant to Ala Code 1975, § 25-5-57(c)(1). As explained by this court in Bruno's, Inc. v.Killingsworth, 879 So.2d 561, 564 (Ala.Civ.App. 2002), writ quashed as improvidently granted, 879 So.2d 568 (Ala. 2003), the trial court computed the attorney fee…