D & E Investments, L.L.C. v. Singleton

I respectfully dissent. I agree with that portion of Judge Moore’s special concurrence (joined by Judge Thomas) in D & E Investments, L.L.C. v. Singleton, 6 So.3d 506, 514-15 (Ala.Civ.App.2007), where he writes, concerning oral notice of and an employer’s knowledge of the work-related nature of an employee’s injury, as follows:

“After [Beatrice Foods Co. v.] Clemons, [54 Ala.App. 150, 306 So.2d 18 (1975),] oral notice by an employee to an employer has been treated as being synonymous with ‘knowledge’ if it sufficiently imparts to the employer information indicating that the employee received…