(a) A person who creates or carries into operation any fraudulent scheme, artifice, or device to execute work without being responsible to the worker for the benefits provided by this chapter shall be included in the term "employer" and shall be subject to all the liabilities of employers under this chapter.
(b) When compensation is claimed from or proceedings taken against a person under subsection (a) of this section, the compensation shall be calculated with reference to the wage the worker was receiving from the person by whom he or she was immediately employed at the time of the injury.
(c) The employer shall not be liable or required to pay compensation for injuries due to the acts or omissions of third persons not at the time in the service of the employer nor engaged in the work in which the injury occurs, except as provided in Section 25-5-11.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 25 - Industrial Relations and Labor.
Chapter 5 - Workers' Compensation.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 25-5-3 - Secretary to Prepare and Distribute Forms, Etc.
Section 25-5-4 - Reports and Records of Injuries for Which Compensation Claimed.
Section 25-5-5 - Reports of Settlements.
Section 25-5-6 - Circuit Court Clerks to Report Disposition of Cases.
Section 25-5-7 - Supplementary Reports as to Initiation, Cessation, etc., of Compensation Payments.
Section 25-5-8 - Employers' Options to Secure Payment of Compensation.
Section 25-5-9 - Pooling of Employers' Liabilities for Qualification as Self-Insurers.
Section 25-5-10 - Liabilities of Persons Engaged in Schemes, etc., to Avoid Liability to Workers.
Section 25-5-12 - Chief Justice of Supreme Court to Prepare Uniform Rules for Circuit Courts.
Section 25-5-13 - Applicability of Chapter.
Section 25-5-15 - Safety Committee.
Section 25-5-15.1 - State Safety Program; Legislative Intent; Creation.