JBS SWIFT & CO. v. OCHOA

No. 15-0840.

888 N.W.2d 887 (2016)

JBS SWIFT & COMPANY and American Zurich Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Rosalva OCHOA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed December 30, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. King , James R. Colwell , and Patrick V. Waldron of Patterson Law Firm, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellants.

James C. Byrne of Neifert, Byrne & Ozga, P.C., West Des Moines, for appellee.


This case presents the question whether Iowa workers' compensation law prohibits an employee from collecting both permanent partial disability benefits and permanent total disability benefits at the same time when the employee suffers successive injuries at the same workplace. We find that the general assembly removed the legal...

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