MILLER v. ITT ARCTIC SERVICES

Nos. 3311 and 3312.

577 P.2d 1044 (1978)

Eileen Marie MILLER, wife, Michael Paul Miller, son, and Valerie Ann Merriman, stepchild of David Eugene Miller (Deceased), Appellants, v. ITT ARCTIC SERVICES, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Alaska Pacific Assurance Company, Appellees. ITT ARCTIC SERVICES, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Alaska Pacific Assurance Company, Cross-Appellants, v. Eileen Marie MILLER, wife, Michael Paul Miller, son, and Valerie Ann Merriman, stepchild of David Eugene Miller (Deceased), Cross-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Opland, Opland, Johnston & Arnett, Anchorage, for appellants.

Robert L. Eastaugh, Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Inc. and Michael G. Briggs, Ely, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, Justices.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

This appeal arises out of the denial of benefits to the survivors of David Eugene Miller by the Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board. The superior court upheld the Board's determination. We affirm.

David E. Miller collapsed on January 20, 1975, while employed by ITT Arctic Services on a project at Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks; he died at a nearby hospital within one and one-half hours of being stricken. Miller had been...

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