The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the terms of a release that a worker signed as a part of settling a workers’ compensation claim served to bar his claim for gross negligence against his former supervisor.
Case: Terry v. Dorothy, No. 18-1545, 10/23/2020, published.
Facts and procedural history: Brian Terry worked for Lutheran Services in Iowa. In October 2015, he suffered injuries when he was attacked by an LSI client.
Terry filed a workers’ compensation claim, which LSI agreed to settle. The settlement provided for the payment of $45,000 to Terry in exchange for his release of ...
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