MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC. v. JOHNSON

No. 278.

386 P.2d 698 (1963)

MATANUSKA ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellant, v. Walter JOHNSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Hughes, Hughes, Thorsness & Lowe, Anchorage, for appellant.

W. C. Arnold, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and AREND, JJ.


NESBETT, Chief Justice.

The question before us is whether the employer of an independent contractor may be held liable to the contractor's injured employee for negligence in failing to select a competent contractor where the contractor has failed to provide workmen's compensation insurance as required by law and is financially unable to respond in damages for injuries sustained by its workmen.

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