OLSEN LOGGING CO. v. LAWSON

No. S-3916.

832 P.2d 174 (1992)

OLSEN LOGGING COMPANY and Cigna Companies, Petitioners, v. David B. LAWSON, Silver Bay Logging and Alaska Timber Insurance Exchange, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BethAnn Boudah Chapman, James R. Webb, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Juneau, for petitioners.

Terri L. Herring-Puz, Welch & Condon, Tacoma, Wash., and Patrick E. Murphy, Batchelor, Murphy & Brinkman, Juneau, for respondent Lawson.

Paul M. Hoffman, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, Juneau, for respondents Silver Bay Logging and Alaska Timber Ins. Exchange.

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


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

In this case we review an interlocutory order of the superior court refusing to stay the enforcement of a lump sum workers' compensation award during an appeal of the award to the superior court.1 We hold that the request for a stay was improperly denied.

I.

The Alaska Workers' Compensation Board set aside a 1973 compromise and release between David B. Lawson and his employer, Olsen...

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