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VAN BIENE v. ERA HELICOPTERS, INC.

No. S-2571.

779 P.2d 315 (1989)

Hollis VAN BIENE, Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Brian Van Biene, and Stanley Thomson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Stanley Mark Thomson, Appellants, v. ERA HELICOPTERS, INC.; Employers Insurance of Wausau; Rowan Companies, Inc.; Intercontinental Dynamics Corporation; Gates Learjet, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Wagstaff, Wagstaff, Pope & Clocksin, Anchorage, for appellants.

Clark Reed Nichols, Perkins, Coie, Anchorage, for appellees.

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

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal arises out of litigation by the estates of two airline pilots who died in an airplane crash while employed by ERA Helicopters, Inc. (ERA). The estates seek recovery against ERA for the intentional tort of "overworking" the two deceased pilots and against Employers Insurance of WAUSAU (WAUSAU), ERA's workers' compensation carrier, for its negligence in the inspection, certification, authorization...

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