Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. McDaniel

Sognier, Judge.

Delta Air Lines, Inc. and its insurer, Employers Insurance of Wausau, were granted this discretionary appeal from a judgment of the superior court affirming the award of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation (Board) in favor of Donald R. McDaniel.

Appellants contend the superior court erred by affirming the Board’s order because one of the directors of the Board who heard appellants’ appeal was the father-in-law of appellee’s attorney.

Canon 3 C (1) of the Code of Judicial Conduct (Code) provides, in pertinent part: “A judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which…