High Court Says Injured Worker Failed to Timely Challenge Enforcement of Settlement

The Alaska Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a self-represented litigant failed to establish his entitlement to relief from an order to enforce a settlement negotiated by his former attorney that he had failed to substantively oppose. Eric McDonald worked for Rock & Dirt Environmental Inc. He suffered injuries in 2014 while working on the renovation of a high school. In November 2015 McDonald sued two other entities involved in the renovation project: Architects Alaska Inc. and BBFM Engineers Inc. McDonald claimed that these two companies had been negligent in the design, superv...