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★ Alaska · workplace

Workplace settlements
in Alaska.

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Alaska pays temporary total disability at 80% of spendable weekly wages, between $358 and $1,627 a week for injuries in 2026. An Anchorage hotel housekeeper who hurt her back lifting linens had her case sent back because the medical stability date lacked support. An airline worker whose 1996 knee injury led to permanent total disability kept her earlier impairment pay.

Facts that decide a workplace claim in Alaska

Weekly benefit80% of spendable weekly wages. For 2026 the maximum is $1,627 and the minimum $358, based on an average weekly wage of $1,356.Alaska Stat. § 23.30.185; Bulletin 25-06
Medical stabilityTemporary total disability stops at medical stability, and the date the Board picks must rest on substantial evidence.Tobar v. Remington Holdings (Alaska 2019)
No offset for earlier impairment payAn employer could not deduct earlier permanent partial impairment payments from permanent total disability pay.Alaska Airlines v. Darrow (Alaska 2017)
★ band · US federal frame
Scheduled statutory benefits, no pain-and-suffering award
Workplace injury (workers compensation)
State workers-compensation schedules; value tracks the impairment rating, the wage rate and future medical, and most claims close by compromise-and-release rather than verdict.

The US band is the starting point. Alaska's fault rule and any applicable cap then adjust the figure.

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★ AK · reported workplace outcomes

What Alaska courts have awarded.

Real Alaska decisions and verdicts, each linked to the court record or official report.

  • Tobar v. Remington Holdings LP
    Alaska Supreme Court · 2019
    Denial of benefits vacated

    In late July 2013 Silvia Tobar, a housekeeper at the Anchorage Sheraton, hurt her back lifting bed linens and was taken to the ER by ambulance; an MRI showed lumbar disc bulging. Her employer stopped benefits on an examining doctor’s opinion that she was medically stable. The court vacated the decision because that stability date lacked substantial evidence.

  • Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Darrow
    Alaska Supreme Court · 2017
    Impairment offset reversed

    Pamela Darrow injured her knee working for Alaska Airlines at the Fairbanks airport in 1996. She kept working for years but had several knee surgeries, received four impairment payments totaling $40,500, and was later found permanently and totally disabled. The court upheld the Commission on the Social Security offset but reversed the offset for her earlier impairment pay.

★ AK · workplace · in practice

What changes the number here.

What actually moves a workplace settlement in Alaska.

  1. 1

    Challenge a medical stability date that your treating provider does not support.

  2. 2

    Keep records of every impairment payment; they may not be deducted later.

  3. 3

    Check the maximum for the year of your injury; the 2026 cap is $1,627 a week.

★ AK · statute of limitations
2 years from date of injury or discovery

Alaska Stat. § 09.10.070

★ AK · fault rule
Pure comparative negligence

Pure comparative negligence, recovery available even at 99% claimant fault, reduced proportionally.

★ AK · caps

What caps recovery.

Statutory caps that may bear on a workplace settlement in Alaska.

★ workplace · same region & fault regime

Compare to like jurisdictions.

How Alaska's fault rule and limitation period compare to jurisdictions in the same US region and to those running the same fault rule for workplace claims.

JurisdictionFault ruleLimitationWorkplace page
Alaska · you are herePure comparative negligence2 years from date of injury or discovery—
CaliforniaPure comparative negligence2 years for personal injury; 1 year for medical malpractice (with 3-year repose)CA · workplace →
ColoradoModified comparative, 50% bar2 years for personal injury; 3 years for motor vehicleCO · workplace →
HawaiiModified comparative, 51% bar2 years from date of injuryHI · workplace →
IdahoModified comparative, 50% bar2 years from date of injuryID · workplace →
MontanaModified comparative, 51% bar3 years from date of injuryMT · workplace →
NevadaModified comparative, 51% bar2 years for personal injury; 3 years for medical malpracticeNV · workplace →
ArizonaPure comparative negligence2 years from date of injuryAZ · workplace →
KentuckyPure comparative negligence1 year for personal injury (one of the shortest in the US)KY · workplace →
MississippiPure comparative negligence3 years from date of injuryMS · workplace →
MissouriPure comparative negligence5 years for personal injury; 2 years for medical malpracticeMO · workplace →
ArkansasModified comparative, 50% bar3 years for personal injury; 2 years for medical malpracticeAR · workplace →
ConnecticutModified comparative, 51% bar2 years from date of injuryCT · workplace →
★ AK · workplace · frequently asked

Common questions.

Each answer is independently coherent and references the relevant statute or authority document.

Sources

Checked 2026-09-30. Every figure on this page comes from one of these documents.

★ all of AK
Alaska overview

Fault rule, statute, caps, and key facts for Alaska as a whole.

★ federal frame
Workplace in United States

Workplace band structure and severity tiers at the US level.

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Workplace · everywhere

Cross-jurisdiction comparison of workplace bands.

★ editorial note

Figures on this page are starting points: the US band adjusted for Alaska's statutory framework. They are not quotes for any specific case. For representation, consult an attorney admitted in Alaska. See /methodology, /sources, and /disclaimer.