DORSHKIND v. OAK PARK PLACE OF DUBUQUE II

No. 11-2100.

835 N.W.2d 293 (2013)

Karen DORSHKIND, Appellee, v. OAK PARK PLACE OF DUBUQUE II, L.L.C., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 2, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Wolle of Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC, Cedar Rapids, and Thomas R. Crone of Melli Law, S.C., Madison, Wisconsin, for appellant.

Mark L. Zaiger and Drew Cumings-Peterson of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Ryan G. Koopmans of Nyemaster Goode, P.C., Des Moines, for amicus curiae Iowa Association of Business and Industry.


WIGGINS, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide if an internal complaint by an employee against an assisted living facility concerning forged training documents, which the state mandates, gives rise to a wrongful-termination action. The district court determined a wrongful-termination suit lies and submitted the case to the jury. The jury returned a verdict against the assisted living facility for actual and punitive damages. The facility appealed. We transferred...

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