Childs v. Tulin

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the superior court properly awarded attorney’s fees under Appellate Rule 508(e) and (g) to Charles and Helen Tulin who were named individually as employer-appellees in Donald Childs’ appeal from an adverse decision of the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board (“Board”). Such an award may be made only if the claimant’s position is “frivolous, unreasonable, or taken in bad faith.” Appellate Rule 508(g). The superior court found that Childs’ appeal as to the Tulins *1339was unreasonable because Childs abandoned any claim against them by failing to…