Idaho Code
Chapter 2 - SCOPE — COVERAGE — LIABILITY
Section 72-208 - INJURIES NOT COVERED — WILLFUL INTENTION — INTOXICATION.

72-208. INJURIES NOT COVERED — WILLFUL INTENTION — INTOXICATION. (1) No compensation shall be allowed to an employee for injury proximately caused by the employee’s willful intention to injure himself or to injure another.
(2) If intoxication is a reasonable and substantial cause of an injury, no income benefits shall be paid, except where the intoxicants causing the employee’s intoxication were furnished by the employer or where the employer permits the employee to remain at work with knowledge by the employer or his supervising agent that the employee is intoxicated.
(3) "Intoxication" as used in this section means being under the influence of alcohol or of controlled substances, as defined in section 37-2701(e), Idaho Code. Provided, however, that this definition shall not include an employee’s use of a controlled substance for which a prescription has been issued authorizing such substance to be dispensed to the employee, or when such substance is dispensed directly by a physician to the employee, and where the employee’s use of the controlled substance is in accordance with the instructions for use of the controlled substance.

History:
[72-208, as added by 1971, ch. 124, sec. 3, p. 422; am. 1989, ch. 364, sec. 1, p. 912; am. 1997, ch. 274, sec. 2, p. 804; am. 2010, ch. 118, sec. 4, p. 264.]

Structure Idaho Code

Idaho Code

Title 72 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Chapter 2 - SCOPE — COVERAGE — LIABILITY

Section 72-201 - DECLARATION OF POLICE POWER.

Section 72-202 - INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

Section 72-203 - EMPLOYMENTS COVERED.

Section 72-204 - PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT — COVERAGE.

Section 72-205 - PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT GENERALLY — COVERAGE.

Section 72-206 - IDAHO YOUTH CONSERVATION PROJECT — COVERAGE.

Section 72-207 - PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT — RELIEF WORK.

Section 72-208 - INJURIES NOT COVERED — WILLFUL INTENTION — INTOXICATION.

Section 72-209 - EXCLUSIVENESS OF LIABILITY OF EMPLOYER.

Section 72-210 - EMPLOYER’S FAILURE TO INSURE LIABILITY.

Section 72-211 - EXCLUSIVENESS OF EMPLOYEE’S REMEDY.

Section 72-212 - EXEMPTIONS FROM COVERAGE.

Section 72-213 - ELECTION OF EXEMPT COVERAGE.

Section 72-214 - REVOCATION OF ELECTION.

Section 72-216 - CONTRACTORS.

Section 72-217 - EXTRATERRITORIAL COVERAGE.

Section 72-218 - AWARD SUBJECT TO CREDIT FOR BENEFITS FURNISHED OR PAID UNDER LAWS OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

Section 72-219 - INJURIES IN TRANSITORY EMPLOYMENT IN IDAHO.

Section 72-220 - LOCALE OF EMPLOYMENT.

Section 72-221 - COVERAGE FOR INJURIES OR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES OUTSIDE STATE PRESUMED.

Section 72-222 - RECIPROCAL RECOGNITION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL COVERAGE WITH OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

Section 72-223 - THIRD PARTY LIABILITY.

Section 72-225 - MINOR EMPLOYEE.

Section 72-226 - INSANE PERSON’S COMPENSATION PAYABLE TO GUARDIAN.

Section 72-227 - DOUBTFUL RIGHTS SUBJECT TO COMMISSION’S DETERMINATION.

Section 72-228 - PRESUMPTION FAVORING CERTAIN CLAIMS.

Section 72-229 - SURETY ESTOPPED TO DENY COVERAGE.

Section 72-230 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE — COVERAGE.