Kulawik v. ERA Jet Alaska

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal and cross-appeal involve a wrongful death action brought on behalf of the estate and the children — statutory beneficiaries of a plane accident victim. The beneficiaries assert several specifications of error: (1) that the method used in calculating future earnings under Beaulieu v. Elliott, 434 P.2d 665 (Alaska 1967), was improper; (2) that beneficiaries of the decedent’s will not designated in the wrongful death statute should be able to recover prospective inheritance damages; (3) that a new trial should have been granted by the…