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CRAWFORD AND CO. v. VIENNA

Nos. S-1645, S-1646.

744 P.2d 1175 (1987)

CRAWFORD AND COMPANY, Appellant, v. Otto VIENNA, Francis Lohof, Tom Kirby, Katherine Chaisson, Carl Godtland, Marvin Mills, James McCleary, Thomas Estabrook, and Don Davis, Individually and as Class Representatives, Appellees. SCOTT WETZEL SERVICES, Industrial Indemnity and Aetna Life & Casualty Company, Appellants, v. Otto VIENNA, Francis Lohof, Tom Kirby, Katherine Chaisson, Carl Godtland, Marvin Mills, James McCleary, Thomas Estabrook, Floyd Wilson, Don Davis, Individually and as Class Representatives, Providence Washington Insurance Company, Rosemurgy and Company and Crawford & Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 6, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall J. Weddle, Allan E. Tesche, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Anchorage, for Scott Wetzel Services, Indus. Indem., and Aetna Life and Cas., appellants in No. S-1646.

Robert L. Eastaugh, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Reitman & Brubaker, Inc., Anchorage, for Crawford and Co., appellant in No. S-1645.

Chancy Croft, Anchorage, for appellees in Nos. S-1645, S-1646.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION.

In this appeal, Crawford and Company, an adjuster, seeks a reversal of the superior court's holding denying it attorneys' fees as a prevailing party under Civil Rule 82.1 At issue is whether this court's holding in Whaley v. Alaska Workers' Compensation Bd., 648 P.2d 955 (Alaska 1982), is properly extended to this case to limit...

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