Legal Opinion
Bravo v. Aker
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided January 4, 2019No. 7327 S-16914PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STOWERS, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiffs/appellants are an adult daughter believed to be incompetent and her mother. After retaining counsel, the mother brought a tort action as the daughter's next friend for in utero injuries to the daughter, which the mother alleged were caused almost 20 years previously in a boating accident. The defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, but they also offered to permit the plaintiffs to dismiss the case with each side to bear its own costs and fees. The plaintiffs' attorney believed that accepting this walk-away offer was in the daughter's best…
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