ROGERS ELEC. CO. v. KOUBA

No. 4164.

603 P.2d 909 (1979)

ROGERS ELECTRIC COMPANY and Industrial Indemnity Co., Appellants, v. Richard Lee KOUBA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford M. Gibbs, Hagans, Smith, Brown, Erwin & Gibbs, Anchorage, for appellants.

Pamela L. Finley and Paul M. Hoffman, Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh & Bradley, Juneau, for appellee.

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


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Richard Kouba, an electrician, was injured at Prudhoe Bay in September 1975 when he slipped on a patch of ice and a cable he was installing fell across his chest. Being unable to work further on the North Slope, he returned to Texas. Dr. Arthur Glassman, an orthopedic surgeon in Houston, examined Kouba there and concluded that he had sprained ligaments in his lumbar spinal area. Dr. Glassman found at that time no objective...

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