Boise Cascade Corp. v. Starbuck

This workers’ compensation case involves a back injury sustained in one employment followed by a worsening of the condition during a later employment. The first employer, Boise Cascade Corporation, was held to be the responsible employer and seeks review in this court, invoking the last injurious exposure rule. It claims that even though there was no “definable accident or event” in the later employment, the later employer nonetheless is liable under the last injurious exposure rule because the working conditions in the later employment were capable of causing the disability. Under Sahnow v.…