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SOURBIER v. STATE

No. 92-254.

498 N.W.2d 720 (1993)

Steve SOURBIER, Appellee, v. STATE of Iowa and Iowa Industrial Commissioner, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., and Joanne Moeller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellants.

Richard B. Maher, Council Bluffs, for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

ANDREASEN, Justice.

Iowa's workers' compensation law provides that an employer, or the employer's insurer, who has paid compensation to an employee, shall be indemnified out of the recovery of damages paid to the injured employee by a third party and shall have a lien on the claim for such recovery and the judgment thereon for the compensation for which the employer or insurer is liable. Iowa Code § 85.22(1) (1989). In this case we must decide if the recovery...

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