Divisions

Workers’ Compensation

Our Workers’ Compensation division ensures proper payment of benefits to employees injured on the job and encourages safety in the workplace. It is also responsible for the administration of the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Law.

What employers need to know

We provide a number of resources for employers navigating on-the-job injury cases and workplace safety.

Helping you with every step.

The Workers’ Compensation division of Workforce Alabama is the one-stop destination for workers and employers facing on-the-job injury cases. We offer information and services to claimants, employers, insurance companies, attorneys, labor and management groups and many other parties.

We also administer rules and regulations for individual self-insurers and group self-insurers. Major activities include compliance inspections, safety promotion, auditing and enforcing claims payments and settlements, compiling injury and cost statistics, mediating disputes and establishing and regulating cost containment standards.

Our Services

The following services are provided by the Workers’ Compensation Division to better serve Alabama employers: 

  • Brochures on the benefits of the Ombudsman Program, and on Workers’ Compensation insurance coverage for employers 
  • Third-party administrative company information 
  • Ongoing continuing education seminars 
  • Provider fee schedules and negotiated agreements with hospitals 
  • Staff available to explain law and rights that pertain to employers, employees and carriers 
  • Workers’ Compensation posters 
  • Order forms for division books, rules and schedules 
Contact Information

The State of Alabama Workers’ Compensation Division’s normal business hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Main Telephone Numbers (Including for those Injured on the Job): 334-956-4044 or 1-800-528-5166.

Contact slect staff members in the division 

WC Director

334-956-4041
John.H.Lewis@labor.alabama.gov

Ombudsman Supervisor

334-956-4041
John.H.Lewis@labor.alabama.gov

Medical Supervisor

334-956-4047
Craig.White@labor.alabama.gov

Seminars Coordinator

334-956-4029
Linsey.Kelly@labor.alabama.gov