Alaska Injuries

A ranch hand in Wasilla with a bad neck injury can get squeezed hard when the employer waves around a "light duty" job that the treating doctor says is still too much.

A shoulder injury that looked minor after a fall at work can still become a real Alaska claim later, and an adjuster saying "that's the policy limit" is not the same thing as proof.

An undocumented worker in Kodiak wants to know whether a workers' comp claim after a medication-related hospitalization can expose immigration status when the employer is pushing hard to keep it off the books.