Robert Burton & Associates, Ltd. v. Morris

I respectfully dissent. Given the Court’s settled precedent that workers’ compensation laws are to be “liberally construed to effect their beneficent purposes,” Ex parte Beaver Valley Corp., 477 So.2d 408, 411 (Ala.1985); see also Ex parte City of Birmingham, 988 So.2d 1035 (Ala.2008); Ex parte Mitchell, 989 So.2d 1083 (Ala. 2008); and Trott v. Brinks, Inc., 972 So.2d 81 (Ala.2007), I am not persuaded that this Court must conclude that the word “benefits” as used in the definition of “compensation” in § 25-5-1(1), Ala.Code 1975, is unambiguously restricted to those benefits provided in…