By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. Alabama does not have state specific wage and overtime laws; therefore, Alabama follows federal wage and overtime laws. Specifically, the federal law is the Fair Labor Standard Act. It outlines federal laws for wage and overtime compliance and violations. One...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. An employer's liability for harassment that constitutes a hostile work environment, including sexual harassment, depends on the job role of the individual(s) doing the harassing. The standard for employer liability varies depending on whether the harasser is the victim’s supervisor...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. What insurance is available when you’re the passenger of a vehicle involved in a car wreck and injured? As is often the case in legal questions, it depends. Scenario 1: The driver of the vehicle the passenger is in, is at...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. The Faragher-Ellerth defense is an affirmative defense used by employers to avoid liability from discrimination claims brought against them under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This defense was the result of two Supreme Court case decisions:...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. Workers’ compensation insurance plans provide benefits to employees if they suffer an on-the-job injury. They cover an employee’s medical treatment costs for an injury that occurred on the job or in some instances a work-related illness. But when is an...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. In Alabama, there are generally two types of damages you can recover if you have been injured in an auto accident. One of these types is compensatory damages, which exist to compensate the injured party for medical expenses they incur,...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. According to the Eleventh Circuit, constructive discharge occurs when a discriminatory employer imposes working conditions that are so intolerable that a reasonable person in the employee’s position would have been compelled to resign. This resignation is not the will of...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. Sexual harassment claims can be brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a form of discrimination based on sex. There are two different categories in which sexual harassment claims typically fall: (1) quid pro quo...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. Premises liability typically comes into play in personal injury cases when the injury is caused by an unsafe or defective condition on someone else’s property. Alabama premises liability categorizes visitors into three classes: (1) invitees, (2) licensees, and (3) trespassers. Invitees...
By: Virtus Law Group, Birmingham Alabama. According to a 2021 report from the Insurance Research Council, about one in eight drivers don’t carry car insurance. Uninsured Motorist (UM) coverage allows you to recover damages that you incurred in an accident caused by a driver who doesn’t...