Iowa Supreme Ct. Restores Ruling that Rejected Worker’s Expert Report in PTD Claim January 8, 2024 By Jim Sams The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday reinstated a deputy workers’ compensation commissioner’s decision to bar reports that were submitted too...
Iowa: Husband Eligible for Work Comp Death Benefits Despite Separation April 11, 2023 By Jim Sams The husband of a deceased worker is not ineligible for workers’ compensation death benefits merely because he no longer lived...
Iowa Supreme Reverses, Finds 911 Dispatcher’s PTSD Claim Compensable June 6, 2022 By Jim Sams The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls...
Iowa Issues 2nd State Supreme Court Ruling Finding No Coverage for COVID Income Loss April 25, 2022 By Jim Sams The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled in two separate decisions that COVID-19 did not cause a physical loss or...
Iowa Supreme Court Finds Gross Negligence Not Always an Intentional Act June 8, 2020 By Jim Sams The Iowa Supreme Court cleared the way for a federal lawsuit against an amusement park to proceed, reversing a district...
Iowa Court Drastically Cuts Insurer’s Payment to Paralyzed Worker March 2, 2020 By David Pitt DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday dramatically reduced the compensation a paralyzed northeast Iowa man received...
Iowa Bars Bad Faith Against TPAs, but Question Unsettled Elsewhere May 15, 2019 By Jim Sams A split decision by the Iowa Supreme Court last week resolves the issue in one state, but the question of...
Public Duty Doctrine Reduces Government Liability in Iowa Road Safety Case June 19, 2018 By DAVID PITT A recent Iowa Supreme Court decision involving a 2013 car accident on a northwest Iowa county road could make it...
Iowa Supreme Court Hears $75 Speed Camera Ticket Case September 22, 2017 By DAVID PITT An Iowa woman who says she was wrongly ticketed by an automated traffic camera when she wasn’t speeding has accomplished...
Iowa High Court Orders New Trial in High School Baseball Injury Case June 6, 2017 By DAVID PITT The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial in the case of a Muscatine high school baseball player...