Nixola Jean Doan, PR for the Estate of Tristana Doan v. Banner Health Inc., D/B/A Fairbanks Memorial Hospital…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the superior court’s reservation of settlement funds for potential attorney’s fees and costs of non‑settling defendants and upheld the distribution of the estate’s attorney’s fees and costs from the settlement under the common fund doctrine. The Court applied the Soldotna Air precedent and held that the reservation does not violate due process or public policy.