Equitable Principles Did Not Bar County From Denying Employment Relationship With Investigator

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a county commission was entitled to summary judgment dismissing an investigator’s occupational disease claim on the basis that he was not a county employee. Case: Thornbury v. Madison County Commission, No. 2170278, 09/28/2018, published. Facts and procedural history: Clarence Thornbury filed a worker’s compensation claim in 2016, asserting that he had contracted one or more occupational diseases stemming from destruction of methamphetamine-manufacturing equipment in the course of his work as a law-enforcement officer between 2001 and...