Angstman Law Office, Inc.
Proven VerdictsAbout Angstman Law Office, Inc.
Angstman Law Office was founded by Myron Angstman in Bethel, Alaska in 1977 after he spent three years there as a Public Defender, and describes itself as rural Alaska's oldest law firm. The firm now handles only civil cases and takes cases statewide, with contract lawyers from around Alaska and the lower 48 assisting as needed. Its results include verdicts of more than $9,000,000 in Andrew v. Midwest Folding Table (2005) and more than $17,000,000 in Trailov v. Allstate Insurance (2015), and a $10 million settlement for two victims in a police misconduct case against the City of Bethel. The Bethel office remains open although Myron Angstman has relocated to Anchorage.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Angstman Law Office, Inc.
In January 2016 Dietrich Mael heard the boiler in his family's Chefornak home whistling and went to check it. It exploded, threw him against a wall, sprayed him with scalding water and glycol and knocked him out. The home's owner, the AVCP Regional Housing Authority, had promised in the family's lease-purchase contract to inspect the boiler and had not; the pressure relief valve was rusted through. A Bethel jury put all the fault on the authority and awarded $3,427,000. Alaska's cap cut the noneconomic portion to $1,000,000, and the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed $2,847,000 in 2022.
In August 2015 Nicholas Tucker, a 37-year-old commercial fisherman from Ketchikan serving a sentence at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, developed a spinal cord infection. Over six days of written medical requests, a wheelchair trip to the clinic and notes recording severe radiating pain, staff gave him ibuprofen and a muscle relaxant. Other prisoners were moving him to the toilet and writing his requests for him by the time a nurse found he could not get out of his bunk. He was flown to Anchorage for emergency surgery and is permanently partially paralyzed. The State of Alaska settled in June 2019 for $1,800,000 plus $200,000 in Medicaid liens.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.