Washington County School District v. Labor Commission

Chief Justice DURRANT,

opinion of the Court:

Introduction

T1 This case concerns the scope of the Utah Workers Compensation Act. Specifically, we are asked to address the causal connection that an employee must establish between an initial workplace injury and a subsequent non-workplace injury in order to recover workers' compensation for the subsequent injury. In January 2008, Steven Brown, suffered a back injury when he fell down the steps of his bus while at work as a school bus driver for the Washington County School District (School District). This injury required medical treatment and…