Jenkins v. American Transport, Inc.

Franklyn Jenkins appeals from a judgment of the Houston Circuit Court (“the trial court”) granting a summary-judgment motion filed by American Transport, Inc. (“ATI”), in Jenkins’s action seeking benefits under the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975. We reverse and remand.

*999In April 2011, Jenkins, a professional truck driver, sued ATI, seeking benefits under the Act for injuries he had sustained in Minnesota in February 2010 when he unchained a load of cargo he had transported there from Colorado for ATI (“the accident”)- In November 2013, the trial…