Irby v. Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc.

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal concerns the timeliness of a March 2004 workers' compensation claim. Edward Irby disappeared in an apparent industrial accident on April 18, 1997. Irby's wife promptly petitioned the Fairbanks district court for a presumptive death certificate, but in October 1997 the district court jury determined there was insufficient evi dence to presume Irby dead. In 2003 Irby's son filed a second presumptive death petition; the jury in this second proceeding decided in October 2008 that Irby was presumed dead in the industrial accident. Irby's widow…