DEAL v. KEARNEY

No. S-4651.

851 P.2d 1353 (1993)

Clyde F. DEAL, Petitioner, v. L. Jon KEARNEY, individually and as assignee of Insurance Company of North America, Cigna, Inc., Lutheran Hospitals & Homes Society of America, Inc., its affiliates, subsidiary, parent and successor corporations, Kodiak Island Hospital, as assignors to their rights of indemnity of contribution and as subrogees to the rights of L. Jon Kearney, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 14, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Burton, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Reitman & Brubaker, and Roger F. Holmes, Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, for petitioner.

John S. Hedland, Sara E. Heideman, Hedland, Fleischer, Friedman, Brennan & Cooke, Anchorage, for respondents.

Dan A. Hensley, Paula M. Jacobson, Luce & Hensley, Anchorage, for amicus curiae, Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers.

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


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This matter is before the court on a petition for review. See Alaska R.App.P. 402 and 403. Clyde F. Deal, M.D., the petitioner, seeks reversal of the superior court's denial of his motion for summary judgment, on claims made against him by a former patient, L. Jon Kearney, for indemnity, subrogation and contribution. Such claims were assigned to Kearney by Lutheran Hospitals &...

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