SAIF Corp. v. Johnson

The Workers’ Compensation Board, applying the last injurious exposure rule, assigned responsibility for claimant’s occupational hearing loss to Gilkison & Dad, Inc. (Gilkison), and its insurer, SAIF. They seek judicial review. Because we conclude that claimant first sought and received medical care when he took an audiogram and obtained a hearing aid and that those events occurred before he was hired by Gilkison, we reverse and remand.

Claimant worked at several jobs for different employers in the logging industry between 1960 and his retirement in 1997 at the age of 60. Each of his jobs…