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• Recent Shooting Could Lead to Civil Claims

  Mike Schneider | April 05, 2009 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  March 15, 2009, a party at a warehouse in South Anchorage went bad. Chad Zurfluh tried to break up a fight, was assaulted himself, and thrown out of the warehouse where the party was going on....

• Juneau Woman Dies in Glacier Highway Auto Accident

  James Cool | February 03, 2009 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The Fort Mill Times report that Mary Grace Needham, a 31 year old Juneau woman, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash on the Glacier highway on Sunday, February 1, 2009. ...

• Crash at Seward Highway/Bird Creek leaves one dead and two injured. What those involved need to know….

  James Cool | January 05, 2009 1:57 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  Anchorage, Alaska—KTTU news reports that on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 a two-car accident closed the Seward highway near Bird Creek for nearly four hours and left one dead and two seriously...

• Leonard Guinn is Fifth Motorcyle Death in June

  Mike Schneider | June 29, 2008 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  The investigation isn't complete, but early indications are that the driver of a Ford Explorer pulled out in front of Guinn at the intersection of the Seward and Sterling Highways. The crash...

• Plane Crashes in Alaska: Serious Injury and Death Above U.S. Averages

  Mike Schneider | April 22, 2008 10:55 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Fast changing weather, bush landing sites, animals on the runways, and pilot inexperience help make Alaska a very dangerous place to be an aircraft passenger. Pilots die at a rate 100 times the...

• Twins Fight for Their Lives Against Medical Mistake

  Mike Schneider | November 21, 2007 7:35 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Twins born by surogate to Dennis Quaid and wife, Kimberly Buffington, November 8, 2007 are now fighting for their lives in a Los Angeles hospital. They were negligently administers 1000 times the normal dose of Heparin, an anticoagulant, and began "bleeding out." They are now in stable condition. Packaging plays a role in this frequent medical negligence scenario. The product with the...

• Driver in Ketchikan Fatality Won't Be Charged

  Jane Schneider | November 19, 2007 12:46 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  The driver, Robert Elliott, 39, of a "Ketchikan Duck Tour" vehicle won't be criminally charged as a result of a pedestrian collision that took the life of Californian, Myong S. Thayer last summer. Thayer stepped in front of the vehicle while it was stopped on the dock. She was standing in its blind spot. She died at the scene of the serious injuries she sustained when the vehicle was moved...

• No Seat Belt Worn by Driver In Fatal Crash

  Jane Schneider | September 14, 2007 12:26 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK

  Tuesday, 9/11/07, the non-belted driver of a vehicle that crashed into the woods at mile 108 of the Seward Highway was found dead in his vehicle. The results of toxicology tests are pending. Alaska has a mandatory seat belt law.For more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

• Clyde Dunlap Killed By Moose. Here's The Law...

  Ward Merdes | September 05, 2007 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  The Dunlap family's insurance carrier will play an old trick on Ms. Dunlap - to avoid paying a dime.The Alaska State Troopers report that Clyde Dunlap, 88, died when his wife, Martha Dunlap, ran into a moose. It appears that Ms. Dunlap did not see the moose until it was too late. The legal import of this situation is twofold: (1) was Martha Dunlap negligent for not seeing the moose?; and (2) is...

• Five Die in Alaskan Plane Crash

  Jenny Albano | August 17, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK

  A small plane crashed near the island of Ketchikan in Alaska killing 5 passengers. Four people that were on the plane survived.The names of the people aboard the aircraft are not immediately available, but it is known that 3 of the survivors were sent to a hospital on the mainland for treatment of burns. According to a member of the rescue squad the plane crashed into a tree about 200 feet...