Alaska tribal health consortiums are legally immune in many cases, state Supreme Court says

Alaska tribal health consortiums are legally immune in many cases, state Supreme Court says

James BrooksAlaska BeaconThe Alaska Supreme Court overturned a 20-year-old precedent Friday by ruling that Alaska Native tribal organizations can more easily receive the kind of sovereign legal immunity that individual tribes have.Friday’s 4-1 decision means the tribal consortiums that provide health care for tens of thousands of Alaskans — both Native and non-Native — are largely immune from civil lawsuits in state court, unless those consortiu…