FAIRBANKS N. STAR BOR. v. ROGERS & BABLER

No. S-1596.

747 P.2d 528 (1987)

FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH and Scott Wetzel Services, Appellants, v. ROGERS AND BABLER and Alpac/INA, Northland Maintenance, Wausau Insurance Company, and Alex Odom, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph R. Beistline, James Klassen, Ann Stoloff Brown, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Fairbanks, for appellants.

Chancy Croft, Fairbanks, for appellee Odom.

Robert L. Eastaugh, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Reitman & Brubaker, Anchorage, for appellees Rogers & Babler and INA.

Dennis E. Cook, Schaible, Staley, DeLisio & Cook, Fairbanks, for appellees Northland Maintenance and Wausau Ins.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

In this appeal we are asked to determine which employer should be held liable for the payment of workers' compensation benefits when employment with successive employers may have contributed to the worker's resulting disability. The Workers' Compensation Board applied Alaska's last injurious exposure rule1 to the case and determined that the worker's disability was causally related to the worker's most...

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