Marwell Construction, Inc. v. Underwriters at Lloyd's, London

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This case is nearly as old as the judicial system of the State of Alaska. It presents for decision as many arcana of insurance law as counsel have been able to elaborate and preserve for appeal in nearly ten years of litigation. Before we enter this legal phantasmagoria, reminiscent at times of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, we must attempt to set forth a skeleton outline of the factual setting from which emerges a semantic war of nerves. As Judge Brown has noted in a similar context:

“On facts, strikingly simple, neither complex nor conflicting, we have again the problem…