WESTLING v. HORMEL FOODS CORP.

No. 10-0795.

810 N.W.2d 247 (2012)

Donald A. WESTLING, Appellant, v. HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Soldat of Soldat & Parrish-Sams, P.L.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Valerie A. Landis of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.


WIGGINS, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the workers' compensation commissioner correctly decided that a worker failed to prove his claimed disability was causally related to a work injury. Because an award for partial permanent disability for an unscheduled injury under Iowa Code section 85.34(2)(u) (2005) is determined by industrial disability, rather than by functional impairment, the commissioner used the correct standard to determine the...

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