Whitney-Fidalgo Seafoods, Inc. v. Beukers

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

I

In this case we address the question of whether AS 23.30.055, the exclusive liability provision of the Alaska Workmen’s Compensation Act, bars a common law damage action when such an action is brought against an employer by a person who was employed in violation of child labor laws at the time of injury. 1 The employer and defendant below, Whitney-Fi-dalgo Seafoods, Inc., 2 has petitioned us for review of the superior court’s denial of Whitney-Fidalgo’s motion for summary judgment on this issue. In its memorandum of decision the superior court held that an illegally…