Alaska Supreme Court
Sandra J. Rusch v. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium and Alaska National Insurance Company, Brenda Dockter…
December 6, 2019453 P.3d 784
Summary
The Alaska Supreme Court reversed the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Commission’s affirmance of the Board’s attorney‑fee awards, holding that the Board erred in its fee‑reasonableness analysis, denied due‑process rights by excluding witness testimony, improperly applied a paralegal rate to attorney work, and affirmed that the presumption of compensability does not apply to fee reasonableness.