The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits for a nurse whose back injury required that she spend the vast majority of her day laying down.
Case: Regional Care Hospital Partners Inc. v. Marrs, No. 22-0959, 02/08/2023, published.
Facts and procedural history: Roberta Marrs worked as a nurse for Regional Care Hospital Partners Inc. She injured her neck and upper back at work in July 2014.
Marrs filed a claim for benefits, and a deputy workers’ compensation commissioner found she was entitled to benefits.
Marrs was awarded healing period benefits and...
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