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WISE MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS v. BIGNELL

Nos. 5387, 5404.

626 P.2d 1085 (1981)

WISE MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS and Industrial Indemnity, Petitioners, v. Edwin BIGNELL, Respondent. Scott A. BALE, Petitioner, v. CHG INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford M. Gibbs, Hagans, Brown & Gibbs, Anchorage, for petitioners Wise Mechanical Contractors and Indus. Indem.

Lance Parrish, Parrish Law Office, Fairbanks, for respondent Bignell.

Dennis Patrick James, Anchorage, for petitioner Bale.

Robert L. Eastaugh, Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Inc., Anchorage, for respondents CHG Intern. and Nat. Auto. and Cas. Ins. Co.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

These two petitions raise an identical question, namely, whether the Appellate Rules or the Alaska statutes control the issuance of a stay in an appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board [WCB] to the superior court.

In No. 5387, the WCB awarded temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker, Edwin Bignell, pending his completion of vocational rehabilitation. The employer's insurance carrier filed...

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