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IN RE SOLDOTNA AIR CRASH LITIGATION

No. S-2920.

835 P.2d 1215 (1992)

In re SOLDOTNA AIR CRASH LITIGATION. SOUTHCENTRAL AIR, INC., Cross-Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Duane R. BREITENFELD, By and Through his Personal Representative, Sharon Kay BREITENFELD and Sharon Kay Breitenfeld; Estate of Frank G. Lazar, By and Through the Personal Representative, Patricia Ann Lazar, Patricia Ann Lazar, individually, and Patricia Ann Lazar, on Behalf of Bryan Michael Lazar and Christine Marie Lazar; Martha Rider, Personal Representative of the Estate of James R. Rider, deceased; Debbie Stroud, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rick Stroud, deceased; Joy Hodgin, Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael James Hodgin, deceased; Gail Ault, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frank Ault, deceased; Lorna Hodgin, individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of James Robert Hodgin, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 30, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard J. Meyer, Jr., Marc G. Wilhelm, Richmond & Quinn, Anchorage, for cross-appellant.

Laurel J. Peterson, Anchorage, for cross-appellees.

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

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This cross-appeal requires us to clarify the proper method for assessing costs and attorney's fees in a wrongful death action. The trial court essentially imposed liability for costs and fees only against the various decedents' estates in this consolidated case, despite the fact that the decedents' personal representatives brought their wrongful death actions not on behalf of the estates, but on behalf of statutory beneficiaries....

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