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GIBEAU v. KOLLSMAN INSTRUMENT CO.

No. S-6248.

896 P.2d 822 (1995)

Henry J. GIBEAU, Appellant, v. KOLLSMAN INSTRUMENT COMPANY, Scibal Insurance and Crawford & Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 9, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meredith A. Ahearn, Hagans, Moran, Ahearn & Webb, Anchorage, for appellant.

Susan M. West and Eric P. Gillett, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, for appellees.

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

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This appeal requires us to decide whether the Workers' Compensation Board should be required or permitted to award lump-sum attorney's fees equal to the present value of expected future attorney's fees, where the claimant's benefits on which the attorney's fees are based are paid out periodically for an indefinite period.

Henry Gibeau became a paraplegic as a result of a work-related helicopter accident. After Gibeau...

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