Marilyn A. Coppe, Appellant v. Michael Bleicher, M.d. and Laurie Bleicher, M.d., and Liberty Northwest Insurance…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the Commission’s decision upholding denial of Coppe’s workers’ compensation claim. The court held that the Board’s mistaken application of the presumption analysis was harmless because its alternative analysis correctly applied the presumption and reached the same result, and that substantial evidence supported the finding that Coppe’s conditions were not work related. The court also upheld the Commission’s rulings that Coppe waived inadequately briefed issues and that exclusion of a report of injury from consideration was harmless.