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Idaho Code § 72-102 (2026)

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Definitions.

Words and terms used in the worker’s compensation law, unless the context otherwise requires, are defined in the subsections which follow:

(1) "Alien" means a person who is not a citizen, a national or a resident of the United States or Canada. Any person not a citizen or national of the United States who relinquishes or is about to relinquish his residence in the United States shall be regarded as an alien.

(2) "Balance billing" means charging, billing, or otherwise attempting to collect directly from an injured employee payment for medical services in excess of amounts allowable in compensable claims as provided by rules promulgated by the commission pursuant to section 72-508, Idaho Code.

(3) "Beneficiary" means any person who is entitled to income benefits or medical and related benefits under this law.

(4) "Commission" means the industrial commission.

(5) "Community service worker" means:

(a) Any person who has been convicted of a criminal offense, any juvenile who has been found to be within the purview of chapter 5, title 20, Idaho Code, and who has been informally diverted under the provisions of section 20-511, Idaho Code, or any person or youth who has been diverted from the criminal or juvenile justice system and who performs a public service for any department, institution, office, college, university, authority, division, board, bureau, commission, council, or other entity of the state, or any city, county, school district, irrigation district or other taxing district authorized to levy a tax or an assessment or any other political subdivision or any private not-for-profit agency which has elected worker’s compensation insurance coverage for such person; or

(b) Parolees under department of correction supervision, probationers under court order or department of correction supervision and offender residents of community work centers under the direction or order of the board of correction who are performing public service or community service work for any of the entities specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection other than the department of correction.

(6) "Compensation" used collectively means any or all of the income benefits and the medical and related benefits and medical services.

(7) "Custom farmer" means a person who contracts to supply operated equipment to a proprietor of a farm for the purpose of performing part or all of the activities related to raising or harvesting agricultural or horticultural commodities.

(8) "Death" means death resulting from an injury or occupational disease.

(9) Dependency limitations.

(a) "Adopted" and "adoption" include cases where persons are treated as adopted as well as those of legal adoption unless legal adoption is specifically provided.

(b) "Brother" and "sister" include stepbrothers and stepsisters, half brothers and half sisters, and brothers and sisters by adoption.

(c) "Child" includes adopted children, posthumous children, and acknowledged illegitimate children, but does not include stepchildren unless actually dependent.

(d) "Grandchild" includes children of legally adopted children and children of stepchildren, but does not include stepchildren of children, stepchildren of stepchildren, or stepchildren of adopted children unless actually dependent.

(e) "Parent" includes stepparents and parents by adoption.

(f) "Grandparent" includes parents of parents by adoption, but does not include parents of stepparents, stepparents of parents, or stepparents of stepparents.

(10) "Disability," for purposes of determining total or partial temporary disability income benefits, means a decrease in wage-earning capacity due to injury or occupational disease, as such capacity is affected by the medical factor of physical impairment, and by pertinent nonmedical factors as provided in section 72-430, Idaho Code.

(11) "Employee" is synonymous with "workman" and means any person who has entered into the employment of, or who works under contract of service or apprenticeship with, an employer. It does not include any person engaged in any of the excepted employments enumerated in section 72-212, Idaho Code, unless an election as provided in section 72-213, Idaho Code, has been filed. It does, however, include a volunteer firefighter for purposes of section 72-438(12) and (14), Idaho Code. Any reference to an employee who has been injured shall, where the employee is dead, include a reference to his dependents as herein defined, if the context so requires, or, where the employee is a minor or incompetent, to his committee or guardian or next friend.

(12)(a) "Employer" means any person who has expressly or impliedly hired or contracted the services of another. It includes contractors and subcontractors. It includes the owner or lessee of premises, or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of the workers there employed. It also includes, for purposes of section 72-438(12) and (14), Idaho Code, a municipality, village, county or fire district that utilizes the services of volunteer firefighters. If the employer is secured, it means his surety so far as applicable.

(b) "Professional employer" means a professional employer as defined in chapter 24, title 44, Idaho Code.

(d) "Work site employer" means the client of the temporary or professional employer with whom a worker has been placed.

(13) "Farm labor contractor" means any person or his agent or subcontractor who, for a fee, recruits and employs farmworkers and performs any farm labor contracting activity.

(14) "Gender and number." The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter; "husband" or "wife" includes "spouse"; the singular number includes plural and the plural the singular.

(15) "Income benefits" means payments provided for or made under the provisions of this law to the injured employee disabled by an injury or occupational disease, or his dependents in case of death, excluding medical and related benefits.

(16) "Independent contractor" means any person who renders service for a specified recompense for a specified result, under the right to control or actual control of his principal as to the result of his work only and not as to the means by which such result is accomplished. For the purposes of worker’s compensation law, a custom farmer is considered to be an independent contractor.

(17) "Injury" and "accident."

(a) "Injury" means a personal injury caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of any employment covered by the worker’s compensation law.

(b) "Accident" means an unexpected, undesigned, and unlooked for mishap, or untoward event, connected with the industry in which it occurs, and which can be reasonably located as to time when and place where it occurred, causing an injury.

(c) "Injury" and "personal injury" shall be construed to include only an injury caused by an accident, which results in violence to the physical structure of the body. The terms shall in no case be construed to include an occupational disease and only such nonoccupational diseases as result directly from an injury.

(18) "Manifestation" means the time when an employee knows that he has an occupational disease, or whenever a qualified physician shall inform the injured worker that he has an occupational disease.

(19) "Medical and related benefits" means payments provided for or made for medical, hospital, burial and other services as provided in this law other than income benefits.

(20) "Medical services" means medical, surgical, dental or other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicines, apparatus, appliances, prostheses, and related services, facilities and supplies.

(21) "Member of an employer’s family" means a natural person or the spouse of a natural person who is related to the employer within the first degree of consanguinity by blood, adoption, or marriage or who is a grandchild of the employer or the spouse of such grandchild.

(22) "Occupational diseases."

(a) "Occupational disease" means a disease due to the nature of an employment in which the hazards of such disease actually exist, are characteristic of, and peculiar to the trade, occupation, process, or employment, but shall not include psychological injuries, disorders or conditions unless the conditions set forth in section 72-451, Idaho Code, are met.

(b) "Contracted" and "incurred," when referring to an occupational disease, shall be deemed the equivalent of the term "arising out of and in the course of" employment.

(c) "Disablement," except in the case of silicosis, means the event of an employee’s becoming actually and totally incapacitated because of an occupational disease from performing his work in the last occupation in which injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease; and "disability" means the state of being so incapacitated.

(d) "Disablement," in the case of silicosis, means the event of first becoming actually incapacitated, because of such disease, from performing any work in any remunerative employment; and "disability" means the state of being so incapacitated.

(e) "Silicosis" means the characteristic fibrotic condition of the lungs caused by the inhalation of silicon dioxide (SiO2) dust.

(23) "Outworker" means a person to whom articles or materials are furnished to be treated in any way on premises not under the control or management of the person who furnished them.

(24) "Person" means the state or any political subdivision thereof, or any individual, partnership, firm, association, trust, corporation, including the state insurance fund, or any representative thereof.

(25) "Physician" means medical physicians and surgeons, ophthalmologists, otorhinolaryngologists, dentists, osteopaths, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, optometrists, podiatrists, chiropractic physicians, and members of any other healing profession licensed or authorized by the statutes of this state to practice such profession within the scope of their practice as defined by the statutes of this state and as authorized by their licenses.

(26) "Provider" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, agency, institution, or other legal entity providing any kind of medical services related to the treatment of an injured employee which are compensable under Idaho’s worker’s compensation law.

(27) "Secretary" means the secretary of the commission.

(28) "Self-insurer" means an employer who has been authorized under the provisions of this law to carry his own liability to his employees covered by this law.

(29) "State" includes any state, district, commonwealth, zone or territory of the United States or any province of Canada.

(30) "Surety" means any insurer authorized to insure or guarantee payment of worker’s compensation liability of employers in any state; it also includes the state insurance fund, a self-insurer and an inter-insurance exchange.

(31) "United States," when used in a geographic sense, means the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of the United States.

(32) "Volunteer emergency responder" means a firefighter or peace officer, or publicly employed certified personnel who is a bona fide member of a legally organized law enforcement agency, a legally organized fire department or a licensed emergency medical service provider organization who contributes services.

(33) "Wages" and "wage-earning capacity" prior to the injury or disablement from occupational disease mean the employee’s money payments for services as calculated under section 72-419, Idaho Code, and shall additionally include the reasonable market value of board, rent, housing, lodging, fuel, and other advantages which can be estimated in money which the employee receives from the employer as part of his remuneration, and gratuities received in the course of employment from others than the employer. "Wages" shall not include sums which the employer has paid to the employee to cover any special expenses entailed on him by the nature of his employment.

(34) "Wages" and "wage-earning capacity" after the injury or disablement from occupational disease shall be presumed to be the actual earnings after the injury or disablement, which presumption may be overcome by showing that those earnings do not fairly and reasonably represent wage-earning capacity; in such a case, wage-earning capacity shall be determined in the light of all factors and circumstances which may affect the worker’s capacity to earn wages.

(35) "Work experience student" means any person enrolled in the public school districts or public institutions of higher education of this state and who, as part of his instruction, is enrolled in a class or program for academic credit and for which the student is employed by, or works for, a private or governmental entity. The student need not receive wages from the private or governmental entity in order to be classified as a work experience student.

(36) "Worker’s compensation law" or "workmen’s compensation law" means and includes the worker’s compensation law of this state and any like or similar law of any state, United States, territory, or province of Canada.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 215 cases (17 in the last 5 years), 1952–2026 · leading case: Robison v. Bateman-Hall, Inc., 76 P.3d 951 (Idaho 2003).

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Robison v. Bateman-Hall, Inc., 76 P.3d 951 (Idaho 2003). · cites it 36× “The result of such a definition is a logical symmetry: those parties deemed employers for the purpose of being liable for worker's compensation benefits under I.C. § 72-102 are the same parties deemed immune from third-party tort liability under I.”

Hazen v. Gen. Store, 729 P.2d 1035 (Idaho 1986). · cites it 50× “" Nevertheless, the commission concluded that "the claimant's injury occurred gradually over a period of time and was not caused by an accident as defined by § 72-102(14). Idaho Code." Thus, even though the commission may have misconstrued the holding in the Wynn case, the…”

Bowman v. Twin Falls Const. Co., Inc., 581 P.2d 770 (Idaho 1978). · cites it 32× “[2] Thus, it would appear possible for claimant here to argue that his condition is both an "accident" (because of this Court's traditionally expansive interpretation of that word) and an "occupational disease" (because of the catchall category added in the 1971 amendment).”

Harpole v. State, 958 P.2d 594 (Idaho 1998). · cites it 50× “Idaho Code § 72-102 (12) defines an employer as: [A]ny person who has expressly or impliedly hired or contracted the services of another.”

Shriner v. Rausch, 108 P.3d 375 (Idaho 2005). · cites it 32× “A referee conducted a hearing and determined that Shriner was an independent contractor and, consequently, not a covered employee for workers' compensation purposes. The Commission adopted the referee's proposed findings of facts and conclusions of law.”

Smith v. Excel Fabrication, LLC, 535 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2023). · cites it 36× “See generally I.C §§ 72-102 through 72-1717. Idaho Code sections 72-209(1) and 72-211 comprise what is colloquially referred to as the “exclusive remedy rule,” which limits an injured worker’s remedy to worker’s compensation benefits when the worker sustains an injury that…”

Fuhriman v. State, 153 P.3d 480 (Idaho 2007). · cites it 20× “Additionally, the statute excludes "the owner or lessee of premises, or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of…”

Jensen v. City of Pocatello, 18 P.3d 211 (Idaho 2000). · cites it 24× “The City, on the other hand, maintains that the ingestion of medication is not an "industrial accident" within the express definition provided in Section 72-102(17) of the Idaho Code. The Idaho Code defines an accident as "an unexpected, undesigned, and unlooked for mishap, or…”

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). · cites it 34× “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

Nelson v. Ponsness-Warren Idgas Enter., 879 P.2d 592 (Idaho 1994). · cites it 26× “" Idaho Code § 72-102 (15)(b) (emphasis added).”

Runcorn v. Shearer Lumber Prods., Inc., 690 P.2d 324 (Idaho 1984). · cites it 14× “Shearer does fall within the definition of “employer” contained in I.C. § 72-102(10): “72-102. Definitions. — Words and terms used in the workmen’s compensation law, unless the context otherwise requires, are defined in the subsections which follow.”

Charles Hartgrave v. City of Twin Falls & SIF, 413 P.3d 747 (Idaho 2018). · cites it 14× “” I.C. § 72-102(18)(b). The parties do not dispute that Hartgrave suffered an “accident” under section 72-102(18)(b).”

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— Idaho Code § 72-102(1) — 2 cases

Marquez v. Pierce Painting, Inc., 423 P.3d 1011 (Idaho 2018).

Marquez v. Pierce Painting (Idaho 2018).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(10) — 13 cases

Runcorn v. Shearer Lumber Prods., Inc., 690 P.2d 324 (Idaho 1984). “Shearer does fall within the definition of “employer” contained in I.C. § 72-102(10): “72-102. Definitions. — Words and terms used in the workmen’s compensation law, unless the context otherwise requires, are defined in the subsections which follow.”

Peone v. Regulus Stud Mills, Inc., 744 P.2d 102 (Idaho 1987).

Rivas v. K.C. Logging, 7 P.3d 212 (Idaho 2000).

Tucker v. Union Oil Co. of California, 603 P.2d 156 (Idaho 1979).

Shriner v. Rausch, 108 P.3d 375 (Idaho 2005). “A referee conducted a hearing and determined that Shriner was an independent contractor and, consequently, not a covered employee for workers' compensation purposes. The Commission adopted the referee's proposed findings of facts and conclusions of law.”

— Idaho Code § 72-102(11) — 12 cases

Smith v. Excel Fabrication, LLC, 535 P.3d 1098 (Idaho 2023). “See generally I.C §§ 72-102 through 72-1717. Idaho Code sections 72-209(1) and 72-211 comprise what is colloquially referred to as the “exclusive remedy rule,” which limits an injured worker’s remedy to worker’s compensation benefits when the worker sustains an injury that…”

McCabe v. Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., 175 P.3d 780 (Idaho 2007).

Dewey v. Merrill, 858 P.2d 740 (Idaho 1993).

Hoskins v. Circle a Constr., Inc., 63 P.3d 462 (Idaho 2003).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(12) — 9 cases

Harpole v. State, 958 P.2d 594 (Idaho 1998). “Idaho Code § 72-102 (12) defines an employer as: [A]ny person who has expressly or impliedly hired or contracted the services of another.”

Moore v. Moore, 269 P.3d 802 (Idaho 2011).

Cordova v. Bonneville Cnty. Jt. Sch. Dist. No. 93, 167 P.3d 774 (Idaho 2007).

Hernandez v. Triple Ell Transp., Inc., 175 P.3d 199 (Idaho 2007).

Gneiting v. Idaho Asphalt Supply, Inc., 941 P.2d 932 (Idaho Ct. App. 1997).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(12)(a) — 13 cases

Robison v. Bateman-Hall, Inc., 76 P.3d 951 (Idaho 2003). “The result of such a definition is a logical symmetry: those parties deemed employers for the purpose of being liable for worker's compensation benefits under I.C. § 72-102 are the same parties deemed immune from third-party tort liability under I.”

Alcala v. Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions, Inc., 531 P.3d 1085 (Idaho 2023).

Venters v. Sorrento Delaware, Inc., 108 P.3d 392 (Idaho 2005).

Fulfer v. Sorrento Lactalis, Inc., 520 P.3d 708 (Idaho 2022).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(13) — 4 cases

Tuma v. Kosterman, 682 P.2d 1275 (Idaho 1984).

Anderson v. Gailey, 555 P.2d 144 (Idaho 1976).

Dohl v. PSF Indus., Inc., 899 P.2d 445 (Idaho 1995).

Adams v. Caribou Mem'l Hosp., 895 P.2d 1215 (Idaho 1995).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(13)(a) — 14 cases

Fuhriman v. State, 153 P.3d 480 (Idaho 2007). “Additionally, the statute excludes "the owner or lessee of premises, or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of…”

Kelly v. TRC Fabrication LLC, 487 P.3d 723 (Idaho 2021).

Krinitt v. Idaho Dep't of Fish & Game, 398 P.3d 158 (Idaho 2017).

Blake v. Starr, 203 P.3d 1246 (Idaho 2009).

Fulfer v. Sorrento Lactalis, Inc., 520 P.3d 708 (Idaho 2022).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(14) — 12 cases

Hazen v. Gen. Store, 729 P.2d 1035 (Idaho 1986). “" Nevertheless, the commission concluded that "the claimant's injury occurred gradually over a period of time and was not caused by an accident as defined by § 72-102(14). Idaho Code." Thus, even though the commission may have misconstrued the holding in the Wynn case, the…”

Yeend v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 659 P.2d 87 (Idaho 1982).

Neufeld v. Browning Ferris Indus., 712 P.2d 600 (Idaho 1985).

Mortimer v. Riviera Apts., 840 P.2d 383 (Idaho 1992).

Dolph v. Hecla Mining Co., 810 P.2d 249 (Idaho 1991).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(14)(a) — 9 cases

Wilder v. Redd, 721 P.2d 1240 (Idaho 1986).

Mapusaga v. Red Lion Riverside Inn, 748 P.2d 1372 (Idaho 1987).

Clark v. Daniel Morine Constr. Co., 559 P.2d 293 (Idaho 1977).

Teffer v. Twin Falls Sch. Dist. No. 411, 631 P.2d 610 (Idaho 1981).

Case of Barker, 666 P.2d 635 (Idaho 1983).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(14)(a)(c) — 1 case

Perez v. J.R. Simplot Co., 816 P.2d 992 (Idaho 1991).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(14)(b) — 13 cases

Vernon v. Omark Indus., 767 P.2d 1261 (Idaho 1989).

Vernon v. Omark Indus., 744 P.2d 86 (Idaho 1987).

Bowman v. Twin Falls Const. Co., Inc., 581 P.2d 770 (Idaho 1978). “[2] Thus, it would appear possible for claimant here to argue that his condition is both an "accident" (because of this Court's traditionally expansive interpretation of that word) and an "occupational disease" (because of the catchall category added in the 1971 amendment).”

Blackwell v. Omark Indus., 752 P.2d 612 (Idaho 1988).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(14)(c) — 3 cases

Nycum v. Triangle Dairy Co., 712 P.2d 559 (Idaho 1985).

Bush v. Bonners Ferry Sch. Dist. No. 101, 636 P.2d 175 (Idaho 1981).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(15) — 6 cases

Langley v. State, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 890 P.2d 732 (Idaho 1995).

Roberts v. Kit Mfg. Co., 866 P.2d 969 (Idaho 1993).

Seamans v. Maaco Auto Painting & Bodyworks, 918 P.2d 1192 (Idaho 1996).

Combes v. State of Idaho, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 942 P.2d 554 (Idaho 1997).

Coronado v. City of Boise (Idaho 2025).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(15)(a) — 5 cases

Kessler Ex Rel. Kessler v. Payette Cnty., 934 P.2d 28 (Idaho 1997).

Evans v. Hara's, Inc., 849 P.2d 934 (Idaho 1993).

Seamans v. Maaco Auto Painting & Bodyworks, 918 P.2d 1192 (Idaho 1996).

Beardsley v. Idaho Forest Indus., 901 P.2d 511 (Idaho 1995).

Gage v. Express Pers., 16 P.3d 926 (Idaho 2000).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(15)(b) — 12 cases

Nelson v. Ponsness-Warren Idgas Enter., 879 P.2d 592 (Idaho 1994). “" Idaho Code § 72-102 (15)(b) (emphasis added).”

Combes v. State of Idaho, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 942 P.2d 554 (Idaho 1997).

Evans v. Hara's, Inc., 849 P.2d 934 (Idaho 1993).

Roberts v. Kit Mfg. Co., 866 P.2d 969 (Idaho 1993).

Beardsley v. Idaho Forest Indus., 901 P.2d 511 (Idaho 1995).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(15)(c) — 1 case

Langley v. State, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 890 P.2d 732 (Idaho 1995).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(16) — 5 cases

Kolar v. Cassia Cnty. Idaho, 127 P.3d 962 (Idaho 2005).

Verdene Page v. McCain Foods, Inc., 316 P.3d 671 (Idaho 2014).

Smith v. Excel Fabrication, LLC (Idaho 2023).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(17) — 10 cases

Jensen v. City of Pocatello, 18 P.3d 211 (Idaho 2000). “The City, on the other hand, maintains that the ingestion of medication is not an "industrial accident" within the express definition provided in Section 72-102(17) of the Idaho Code. The Idaho Code defines an accident as "an unexpected, undesigned, and unlooked for mishap, or…”

O'Loughlin v. Circle a Constr., 739 P.2d 347 (Idaho 1987).

Moore v. Moore, 269 P.3d 802 (Idaho 2011).

Kinney v. Tupperware Co., 792 P.2d 330 (Idaho 1990).

Luttrell v. Clearwater Cnty. Sheriff's Off., 97 P.3d 448 (Idaho 2004).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(17)(a) — 16 cases

Kinney v. Tupperware Co., 792 P.2d 330 (Idaho 1990).

Cutsinger v. Spears Mfg. Co., 50 P.3d 479 (Idaho 2002).

Nycum v. Triangle Dairy Co., 712 P.2d 559 (Idaho 1985).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(17)(b) — 20 cases

Page v. McCain Foods, Inc., 109 P.3d 1084 (Idaho 2005).

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

Spivey v. Novartis Seed Inc., 43 P.3d 788 (Idaho 2002).

Painter v. Potlatch Corp., 63 P.3d 435 (Idaho 2003).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(17)(c) — 6 cases

Roe v. Albertson's, Inc., 112 P.3d 812 (Idaho 2005).

Bollinger v. Fall River Rural Elec. Co-op., 272 P.3d 1263 (Idaho 2012).

Luttrell v. Clearwater Cnty. Sheriff's Off., 97 P.3d 448 (Idaho 2004).

Jones v. Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., 567 P.2d 3 (Idaho 1977).

Jordan v. Walmart Assocs., Inc., 539 P.3d 593 (Idaho 2023).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(17)(e) — 2 cases

Bollinger v. Fall River Rural Elec. Coop., Inc., 272 P.3d 1263 (Idaho 2012).

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

— Idaho Code § 72-102(178)(a) — 1 case

Kinney v. Tupperware Co., 792 P.2d 330 (Idaho 1990).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(18) — 5 cases

Sundquist v. Precision Steel & Gypsum, Inc., 111 P.3d 135 (Idaho 2005).

Newman K. Giles v. Eagle Farms, Inc., 339 P.3d 535 (Idaho 2014).

Langley v. State, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 890 P.2d 732 (Idaho 1995).

Jordan v. Walmart Assocs., Inc., 539 P.3d 593 (Idaho 2023).

Lowery v. Kuykendall (Idaho 2024).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(18)(a) — 16 cases

Atkinson v. 2M Co., 434 P.3d 181 (Idaho 2019).

Joseph Henry v. Dept of Corr., 295 P.3d 528 (Idaho 2013).

Todd L. Hamilton v. Alpha Servs., LLC, 351 P.3d 611 (Idaho 2015).

Vawter v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 318 P.3d 893 (Idaho 2014).

Langley v. State, Indus. Special Indem. Fund, 890 P.2d 732 (Idaho 1995).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(18)(b) — 16 cases

Charles Hartgrave v. City of Twin Falls & SIF, 413 P.3d 747 (Idaho 2018). “” I.C. § 72-102(18)(b). The parties do not dispute that Hartgrave suffered an “accident” under section 72-102(18)(b).”

Arel v. T & L Enter., Inc., 189 P.3d 1149 (Idaho 2008).

Joseph Henry v. Dept of Corr., 295 P.3d 528 (Idaho 2013).

Nelson v. Ponsness-Warren Idgas Enter., 879 P.2d 592 (Idaho 1994). “" Idaho Code § 72-102 (15)(b) (emphasis added).”

Stevens-McAtee v. Potlatch Corp., 179 P.3d 288 (Idaho 2008).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(18)(c) — 10 cases

Fife v. Home Depot, Inc., 260 P.3d 1180 (Idaho 2011).

Arel v. T & L Enter., Inc., 189 P.3d 1149 (Idaho 2008).

Reyes v. Kit Mfg. Co., 953 P.2d 989 (Idaho 1998).

Kitchen v. Tidyman Foods, 936 P.2d 199 (Idaho 1997).

Cawley v. Idaho Nuclear Corp., 784 P.2d 890 (Idaho 1989).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(18)(e) — 1 case

Kitchen v. Tidyman Foods, 936 P.2d 199 (Idaho 1997).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(19) — 2 cases

Arel v. T & L Enter., Inc., 189 P.3d 1149 (Idaho 2008).

Robert L. Arel v. T&L Ent., Inc., & State Ins. Fund (Idaho 2008).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(2) — 2 cases

Neel v. W. Constr., Inc., 206 P.3d 852 (Idaho 2009).

Thompson v. Burley Inn, Inc., 546 P.3d 649 (Idaho 2024).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(20) — 3 cases

Sprague v. Caldwell Transp. Inc., 779 P.2d 395 (Idaho 1989).

Nigherbon v. Ralph E. Feller Trucking, Inc., 706 P.2d 1344 (Idaho 1985).

Verdene Page v. McCain Foods, Inc., 316 P.3d 671 (Idaho 2014).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(20)(a) — 1 case

Mcgee v. Jd Lumber, 17 P.3d 272 (Idaho 2000).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(2004) — 1 case

— Idaho Code § 72-102(21) — 3 cases

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

Lorca-Merono v. Yokes Washington Foods, Inc., 50 P.3d 461 (Idaho 2002).

Verdene Page v. McCain Foods, Inc., 316 P.3d 671 (Idaho 2014).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(21)(a) — 8 cases

Sundquist v. Precision Steel & Gypsum, Inc., 111 P.3d 135 (Idaho 2005).

Reyes v. Kit Mfg. Co., 953 P.2d 989 (Idaho 1998).

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

Mulder v. Liberty Nw. Ins., 14 P.3d 372 (Idaho 2000).

Mcgee v. Jd Lumber, 17 P.3d 272 (Idaho 2000).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(21)(b) — 2 cases

Sundquist v. Precision Steel & Gypsum, Inc., 111 P.3d 135 (Idaho 2005).

Weeks v. Oneida Cnty. (Idaho 2025).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(21)(c) — 1 case

Tupper v. State Farm Ins., 963 P.2d 1161 (Idaho 1998). “” This Court held these “micro traumas” constituted an “accident” pursuant to I.C. § 72-102(14)(b) (current version at I.”

— Idaho Code § 72-102(22) — 1 case

City of Boise v. Indus. Comm'n, 935 P.2d 169 (Idaho 1997).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(22)(a) — 3 cases

The Est. of Kurt Aikele v. City of Blackfoot, 382 P.3d 352 (Idaho 2016).

Jobe v. Dirne Clinic / Heritage Health (Idaho 2017).

The Est. of Kurt Aikele v. City of Blackfoot (Idaho 2016).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(22)(b) — 3 cases

The Est. of Kurt Aikele v. City of Blackfoot, 382 P.3d 352 (Idaho 2016).

Jobe v. Dirne Clinic / Heritage Health (Idaho 2017).

The Est. of Kurt Aikele v. City of Blackfoot (Idaho 2016).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(23) — 2 cases

Kolar v. Cassia Cnty. Idaho, 127 P.3d 962 (Idaho 2005).

Alcala v. Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions, Inc., 531 P.3d 1085 (Idaho 2023).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(24) — 2 cases

Alcala v. Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions, Inc., 531 P.3d 1085 (Idaho 2023).

Richardson v. Z & H Constr., LLC (Idaho 2020).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(25) — 3 cases

Martha A. Arregui v. Rosalinda Gallegos-Main, 291 P.3d 1000 (Idaho 2012).

Edwards v. Indus. Comm'n of the State, 943 P.2d 47 (Idaho 1997).

Sohar Chavez v. Kevin Stokes, 353 P.3d 414 (Idaho 2015).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(26) — 1 case

Baldner v. Bennett's, Inc., 649 P.2d 1214 (Idaho 1982).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(28) — 1 case

Edwards v. Indus. Comm'n of the State, 943 P.2d 47 (Idaho 1997).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(30) — 1 case

Vassar v. J.R. Simplot Co., 5 P.2d 475 (Idaho 2000).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(34) — 2 cases

Oliveros v. Rule Steel Tanks, Inc., 438 P.3d 291 (Idaho 2019).

Oliveros v. Rule Steel (Idaho 2019).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(5) — 6 cases

Crawford v. Dep't of Corr., 991 P.2d 358 (Idaho 1999).

Woodvine v. Triangle Dairy, Inc., 682 P.2d 1263 (Idaho 1984).

Bainbridge v. Boise Cascade Plywood Mill, 721 P.2d 179 (Idaho 1986).

Walters v. Blincoe's Magic Valley Packing Co., 787 P.2d 225 (Idaho 1990).

Ryen v. City of Coeur D'Alene, 770 P.2d 800 (Idaho 1989).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(6) — 6 cases

Dohl v. PSF Indus., Inc., 899 P.2d 445 (Idaho 1995).

Mulder v. Liberty Nw. Ins., 14 P.3d 372 (Idaho 2000).

Coronado v. City of Boise (Idaho 2025).

Miklos v. L&W Supply (Idaho 2026).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(7) — 1 case

Izaguirre v. R & L Carriers Shared Servs., LLC, 308 P.3d 929 (Idaho 2013).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(7)(a) — 1 case

Graham v. Larry Donohoe Logging, 654 P.2d 1377 (Idaho 1982).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(7)(c) — 1 case

Graham v. Larry Donohoe Logging, 654 P.2d 1377 (Idaho 1982).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(8) — 4 cases

Baldner v. Bennett's, Inc., 649 P.2d 1214 (Idaho 1982).

Sykes v. C. P. Clare & Co., 605 P.2d 939 (Idaho 1980).

Malueg v. Pierson Enter., 727 P.2d 1217 (Idaho 1986).

Colpaert v. Larson's, Inc., 771 P.2d 46 (Idaho 1989).

— Idaho Code § 72-102(9) — 6 cases

Burdick v. Thornton, 712 P.2d 570 (Idaho 1985).

Clark v. Daniel Morine Constr. Co., 559 P.2d 293 (Idaho 1977).

Anderson v. Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co. of Idaho, 732 P.2d 699 (Idaho Ct. App. 1987).

Matter of Hanson, 754 P.2d 444 (Idaho 1988).

Hall v. Young's Dairy Prods. Co., 569 P.2d 907 (Idaho 1977).

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