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CLARY INS. AGCY. v. DOYLE

No. 4386.

620 P.2d 194 (1980)

CLARY INSURANCE AGENCY and Gail Brewer, Appellants, v. James H. DOYLE and Doyle's Fuel Service, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Russell Holland, George Trefry, Holland & Trefry, Anchorage, and Claire D. Johnson, Severson, Werson, Berke & Melchior, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

Arden E. Page, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Inc., Anchorage, for appellees.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

This case involves an insurance agency's failure to obtain workers' compensation insurance, and a later failure to notify the prospective insured of its error. In addition to ordering the insurance agency to assume the position of insurer for a loss suffered by the proposed insured during a time when it was not covered, the trial court, based on the jury's verdict, entered a punitive damage award of $190,000. The appellants raise...

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