Anchorage, AK - Samuel W. Oetinger sued USAA General Indemnity Company on a personal injury auto negligence breach of insurance contract theory.

The demand was for $450,000.00.... More...    $1 (07-06-2018 - AK)

In 2002 Kevin O’Connell was awarded damages against Anthony and Paulette Will for the Wills’ failure to pay a promissory note. Under the attorney’s fee provision in the note, O’Connell was also awarded full attorney’s fees and costs. After O’Connell’s attorney engaged in post-judgment collection efforts, Anthony Will paid the judgment. In 2009 Anthony Will filed a request for an orde... More...    $0 (10-28-2011 - AK)

A property owner leased gravel mining rights to a lessee. The lessee in turn leased its rights to a sublessee. The sublessee assumed the lessee’s duty to pay royalties to the property owner and agreed to pay overriding royalties to the lessee. The lessee later assigned the overriding royalties to an assignee. After more than a decade of operating under these arrangements, the sublessee purchased... More...    $0 (10-30-2009 - AK)

This case presents questions about the duty a liability insurer owes its insured when personal injury plaintiffs make a policy limits settlement demand. A jury ultimately returned a special verdict for the liability insurer following a trial of the insured's bad faith claim against the insurer. We hold that it was not error, under the circumstances of this case, to decline to give the trial... More...    $0 (04-02-2004 - AK)

Two groups of tenants, the Nilsson plaintiffs and the Engler plaintiffs, sued their landlord, the Association of Village Council Presidents Regional Housing Authority (AVCP), for injuries caused by exposure to carbon monoxide emissions from their gas ranges. The contractor, R.A. Vranckaert Company, had forgotten to convert the stoves from natural gas to propane before turning the housing proje... More...    $0 (05-20-2002 - AK)

Can a corporation that purchases assets of the manufacturer of a rifle sold in Alaska be held liable for personal injury caused in Alaska by a defect in the rifle? The superior court held that it could, and we agree. But we reverse and remand for application of the pertinent successor liability doctrines discussed below. We also hold that the indemnity claim brought by the rifle's distrib... More...    $0 (03-02-2001 - AK)

Four U.S. Fabrication & Erection, Inc. workers brought suit alleging that they had been exposed to asbestos while working at a construction project at Providence Hospital in Anchorage. The general contractor on the project, Hoffman Construction, settled the suit, and sought indemnity and defense costs from subcontractor U.S. Fabrication & Erection, Inc. (USF&E) under a contractual indemnity... More...    $0 (05-11-2001 - AK)

During the transfer of cargo from the F/V ENDURANCE to the EIYO MARU, Jason Knight, a seaman aboard the ENDURANCE, was seriously injured. He sued Alaska Trawl Fisheries, Inc., the owner of the ENDURANCE, for unseaworthiness, maintenance and cure, and Jones Act negligence,46 U.S.C. App. § 688, and North Star Terminal and Stevedoring Company ("North Star"), the stevedoring company aboard the EIYOMAR... More...    $1390000 (10-04-1998 - AK)