GEORGE H. WENTZ, INC. v. SABASTA

No. 67605.

337 N.W.2d 495 (1983)

GEORGE H. WENTZ, INC., d/b/a Wentz Plumbing and Heating Co., Employer, and The St. Paul Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants, v. Steven W. SABASTA, Claimant, and Robert C. Landess, Iowa Industrial Commissioner, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Thorn, John M. French, and William R. Hughes, Jr., of Stuart, Tinley, Peters, Thorn, Smits & Sens, Council Bluffs, for appellants.

Harry H. Smith, MacDonald Smith, and LeRoy J. Sturgeon, Sioux City, for appellee Steven W. Sabasta.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McCORMICK, SCHULTZ, CARTER, and WOLLE, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

In this Iowa Code chapter 17A review of proceedings before the Iowa Industrial Commissioner, we must determine whether, under Iowa Code section 85.71, the commissioner properly awarded Iowa workers' compensation benefits to an employee injured outside the boundaries of Iowa. District court and court of appeals affirmed the commissioner's award. On further review, we vacate the court of appeals decision, and reverse that of the district court...

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