City of Hoover v. Phillips

PITTMAN, Judge.

James Ernest Phillips (“the employee”), a firefighter formerly employed by the City of Hoover (“the City”), sued the City in the Shelby Circuit Court1 in July 2001 seeking benefits under the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act, § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975 (“the Act”); the employee claimed to have suffered an injury to his cardiovascular system arising out of and in the course of his employment or, in the alternative, claimed to have suffered from cardiovascular disease that was occupational in nature and therefore compensable under the Act. The City answered the complaint,…