Anchorage, Alaska Workers' Compensation Lawyer Resources

Alaska's economy runs on work that is inherently dangerous. Commercial fishing and seafood processing, North Slope oilfields, logging, mining, commercial aviation, and heavy construction. The industries that define Alaska are also the ones that generate the most serious work injuries in the country. Alaska workers' compensation law exists to make sure that an injured worker does not have to fight their employer and insurer for basic medical care and wage replacement. In practice, that is often exactly what happens.

Alaska workers' compensation is a no-fault system administered under AS Title 23, and it provides medical treatment, temporary total disability (TTD) benefits, permanent partial impairment (PPI) ratings, vocational reemployment benefits, and death benefits to surviving dependents. Disputes typically involve the employer's insurer contesting whether the injury is work-related, whether further treatment is "reasonable and necessary," whether the worker has reached medical stability, and how impairment should be rated. The Alaska Workers' Compensation Board hears these disputes, and deadlines for reporting injuries and filing claims are strict.

I am George Goldberg, founding partner of Goldberg & Loren. In more than 32 years and over 20,000 injury cases, my firm has handled complex work-injury claims in industries ranging from commercial fishing to oilfield operations. Many Alaska work injuries also give rise to third-party civil claims: against a vessel owner under the Jones Act or general maritime law, against an equipment manufacturer, or against a negligent contractor on a shared jobsite. Those claims can recover pain, suffering, and other damages that workers' comp alone will never pay.

Below you will find our Anchorage-focused work injury resources and answers to the questions we hear most often from injured Alaska workers. If your claim has been denied, delayed, or undervalued, or if you were seriously hurt on the job, call Goldberg & Loren at 1-888-352-9243 for a free, confidential case review.