About Myron Angstman
Angstman Law Office (ALO) was founded by Myron Angstman in 1977. Myron first came to Bethel as a Public Defender and was admitted to the Alaska Bar in 1974. After three years of working as a Public Defender, ALO was opened for business in Bethel. Myron has relocated to Anchorage, but the Bethel office is still open and ALO handles cases statewide.
Myron Angstman has handled more than 200 jury trials all over Alaska, and has won all but a few of them. Included are two very large verdicts that are among the highest ever in the state, more than $9,000,000 in the case of Andrew v. Midwest Folding Table in 2005, and more than $17,000,000 in Trailov v. Allstate Insurance in 2015. Recently ALO settled one of the largest police misconduct cases in Alaska history against the City of Bethel, obtaining a total of 10 million dollars for two victims. Myron handles only civil cases now, after a long career of doing both civil and criminal cases.
He has won a wide variety of cases, including homicides, wrongful death cases, environmental claims, and aviation accidents. ALO employs contract lawyers from around Alaska and the lower 48 to assist with cases as needed. Myron Angstman was born in Princeton, Minnesota, and raised on a farm near there.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota where he earned his law degree as well. He moved with his wife Sue to Bethel, Alaska in 1974. Myron worked as a Public Defender in Bethel, before opening his private practice in 1977.
Proven verdicts and settlements
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.