Case ID: so2d_686/html/0203-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HOUSTON, Justice. HOOPER, Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte DUNLOP TIRE CORPORATION. (In re DUNLOP TIRE CORPORATION v. John D. CHUNN).
    1951895.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Nov. 22, 1996.
    
      Dennis Riley of Morring, Schrimsher & Riley, Huntsville, for Petitioner.
    James M. Corder of Alexander, Corder, Plunk & Baker, P.C., Athens, for Respondent.
   HOUSTON, Justice.

AVRIT DENIED; NO OPINION.

MADDOX, ALMON, SHORES, KENNEDY, COOK, and BUTTS, JJ., concur.

HOOPER, C.J., dissents.

HOOPER, Chief Justice

(dissenting).

I understand that precedent supports the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals. However, I believe that this Court’s rulings have caused the evidentiary standard governing proof of legal and medical causation in workers’ compensation cases to become so lax that this Court is not applying the statutory standard prescribed by the legislature. I, therefore, respectfully dissent.