Anchorage, Alaska Car Accident Lawyer Resources

Driving in Anchorage is unlike driving almost anywhere else in the country. Ice-glazed stretches of the Seward and Glenn Highways, the long dark hours of winter, moose on the roadway, and the collapsing asphalt around neighborhoods like Turnagain and Sand Lake all combine to produce a crash profile that does not look much like the Lower 48. The legal framework governing those crashes, however, is powerful for injured drivers if you know how to use it.

Alaska follows pure comparative fault. That means even a driver found mostly at fault for a collision can still recover some portion of their damages, reduced by their percentage of fault. That rule is dramatically more favorable than the modified comparative fault schemes used in most states and it should change how you respond to any adjuster who tells you there is no case because you were "partly responsible." Alaska also requires mandatory auto liability coverage, and serious-injury cases frequently turn on uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, especially when the at-fault driver is uninsured, which happens at a higher rate here than insurance industry averages would suggest.

I am George Goldberg, founding partner of Goldberg & Loren. In more than 32 years and over 20,000 injury cases, my firm has represented drivers, passengers, and families in complex crash cases across multiple jurisdictions. I started on the defense side of injury litigation in 1994 and switched to plaintiff work in 1996, and I bring that insurance-industry perspective to every Alaska case we handle.

Below you will find our car accident resources most relevant to Anchorage drivers and the questions we hear most often after an Alaska crash. If you have been injured in an Anchorage-area collision, call Goldberg & Loren at 1-888-352-9243 for a free, no-obligation review of your case.