Alabama § 25-5-115 False Written Representation to Employer as to Previous Compensation for Occupational Disease

Alabama Statutes

§ 25-5-115 — False Written Representation to Employer as to Previous Compensation for Occupational Disease

Alabama § 25-5-115

Title 25Industrial Relations and Labor

Ch. 5Workers’ Compensation

Art. 4Compensation for Occupational Diseases

This text of Alabama § 25-5-115 (False Written Representation to Employer as to Previous Compensation for Occupational Disease) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Alabama primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Ala. Code § 25-5-115 (2026).

Text

If an employee, at the time of or in the course of entering into the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be paid, wilfully and falsely represented himself in writing to such employer as not having previously been compensated in damages, or under this article, because of occupational disease, as defined in this article, such employee, his personal representative, parents, surviving spouse, dependents, and next of kin shall be barred from compensation or other benefits provided by this article or from recovery at common law by statute, contract, or otherwise on account of occupational disease as defined in this article, resulting from exposure to the hazards of such disease subsequent to such representation and while in the employ of such employer.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

If an employee, at the time of or in the course of entering into the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be paid, wilfully and falsely represented himself in writing to such employer as not having previously been compensated in damages, or under this article, because of occupational disease, as defined in this article, such employee, his personal representative, parents, surviving spouse, dependents, and next of kin shall be barred from compensation or other benefits provided by this article or from recovery at common law by statute, contract, or otherwise on account of occupational disease as defined in this article, resulting from exposure to the hazards of such disease subsequent to such representation and while in the employ of such employer.