Rena Meeks v. Opp Health and Rehabilitation, LLC

• Court: Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
• Decided: July 11, 2025
• Docket: CL-2023-0239
• Status: Published

Opinion

Rel: July 11, 2025

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ALABAMA COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS SPECIAL TERM, 2025 _________________________

CL-2023-0239 _________________________

Rena Meeks

v.

Opp Health and Rehabilitation, LLC

Appeal from Covington Circuit Court (CV-21-900059)

After Remand from the Alabama Supreme Court

PER CURIAM.

The prior judgment of this court has been reversed, and the case

has been remanded by the Supreme Court of Alabama, which held that

Rena Meeks did not preserve for appellate review her argument that she

was entitled to recover workers' compensation benefits based on the CL-2023-0239

theory that she had suffered a nonaccidental injury. Ex parte Opp Health

& Rehabilitation, LLC, [Ms. SC-2024-0266, May 23, 2025] ___ So. 3d ___

(Ala. 2025).

Because Meeks's only arguments on appeal are derived from her

contention that she had suffered a nonaccidental injury, those arguments

cannot serve as a basis for reversal of the judgment of the Covington

Circuit Court ("the trial court"). Therefore, on remand to this court, and

in compliance with the supreme court's opinion in Ex parte Opp Health

& Rehabilitation, LLC, supra, we now affirm the judgment of the trial

court.

AFFIRMED.

Moore, P.J., and Hanson and Fridy, JJ., concur.

Edwards, J., concurs in the result, without opinion.

Bowden, J., recuses himself.