Houston Contracting, Inc. v. Phillips

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

Houston Contracting, Inc.’s appeal is the most recent of a long succession of legal and administrative actions pertaining to the amount of workers’ compensation benefits to which Richard L. Phillips, a heavy duty mechanic who was injured while working for Houston, is entitled. The issues in this case fall into two categories: those requiring interpretation of benefit computation statutes; and those pertaining to the authority of the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board to condition workers’ compensation benefits upon the beneficiary’s cooperation with rehabilitation orders.