Reust v. Alaska Petroleum Contractors, Inc.

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A jury awarded Dan Reust compensatory and punitive damages after finding that Alaska Petroleum Contractors (APC) wrongfully terminated him in retaliation for testifying in previous litigation between APC and another former APC employee. APC and Reust both appeal.

As to the jury instructions to which APC preserved its objections, we discern no reversible error. We also hold that witness retaliation is against the public policy of this state, that APC failed to preserve its arguments against the emotional distress award, and that sufficient evidence…