Cross v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Corp.

Linda D. Cross ("the employee") appeals from a judgment of the Morgan County Circuit Court permitting her former employer, Goodyear Tire Rubber Corporation ("the employer"), to set off the employee's workers'-compensation benefits against retirement benefits that the employee is drawing from the employer.

On March 12, 1998, the employee was adjudicated to have suffered a workplace injury to a scheduled member (her left leg) while in the line and scope of her employment with the employer, and the trial court awarded benefits under the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act in the amount of…