What Do You Think? Sometimes it takes a jury to decide whether an employee has established an FMLA interference claim. A case in point involves an employee who worked as a skilled mechanic at a pork-processing […]

25 for 25 in '25 Over the next 12 months, we will be taking a look back at important and noteworthy workers' compensation cases that have come up in each of the 25 years WorkersCompensation.com […]

Do You Know the Rule? Iowa’s workers’ compensation statute does not allow employees, or their surviving family members, to collect benefits when the employee, effectively, knowingly harmed himself. This is the willful-injury defense outlined in […]

Iowa, Entitlement to Death Benefits On October 30, 2024, the Iowa Court of Appeals, in Linnhaven Inc. v. Blasdell, affirmed an award of workers compensation (WC) death benefits to the spouse of a totally disabled employee […]

Can You Solve the Case? Marion, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A case involving an injured employee who tragically died from a drug overdose in 2016 shows how Iowa’s willful injury defense can go either way when the […]

Boone, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A convenience store employee who was sexually assaulted by a co-worker is alleging that the store managers knew the perpetrator was a problem before he attacked her. And when she reported […]

Compliance Corner Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's a basic concept, but when a worker gets hurt on the job, the clock starts to tick on her claim. As can be found on Simply Research, […]

Glossary Check Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation) -- Subscribers of Simply Research recently saw on the "What's New" page some information out of Iowa that breaks down, among other things, terms regarding benefits to those who […]