Legal Question in Personal Injury in Alabama

personel injury vs public utility company

Is There a Law, That, In The State Of Alabama, That limits The Amount A Permenantly Injured Person Can Sue A Public Utility Company For?

Facts of the case:

perminent back injury caused by utility company neglect of public safty

accident occured march 1999

please respond to this because i feel like im being lied to. i have been told this case is only worth a couple of 100,000.00 but i know of the same thing happening in florida

and the case was worth 1.2 million over 10 years ago.


Asked on 5/29/01, 12:22 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jon Lewis Lewis, Feldman, & Lehane, LLC

Re: personel injury vs public utility company

There is a cap on municipal corporations and counties of $100,000.00, but if the utility is someone like Alabama Power there would not be a Municipal corporation cap. A bigger problem I see is the fact that over two years have passed since the accident, and therefore, your statute of limitations may have run.

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Answered on 6/04/01, 5:25 pm


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