Alabama Power Co. v. Foster

HOUSTON, Justice.

Sadie Foster suffered electrical burns during the course of her employment as a welder at a shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. She sued Alabama Power Company (“APCo”), alleging that its negligence had proximately caused her injuries. A jury found for Ms. Foster and awarded her $1,000,000 in damages. The trial court entered a judgment on the jury’s verdict and later denied APCo’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, a new trial. APCo appealed. We affirm.

Ms. Foster was welding on the deck of a 90-foot steel-hulled commercial shrimp boat…