VINTAGE PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC v. Hayes

I concur in the main opinion’s decision to reverse the trial court’s judgment and to remand the cause for the trial court to enter a new judgment limiting the employee to permanent-partial-disability benefits as set out in “the schedule,” Ala.Code 1975, § 25-5-57(a)(3)a. I write specially to address the perceived harshness or unfairness of applying the schedule to this case.

Before the advent of workers’ compensation laws, employees injured in work-relat*1208ed accidents depended on the common law or the Employers’ Liability Act, Title 26, § 326 et seq., Ala.Code 1940, as their exclusive forms of…