Justices Rule Pain and Suffering Award Off Limits, Too

Pain and suffering is separate from other recoverable benefits in workers' compensation subrogation, the Iowa Supreme Court held. The carrier, Cincinnati Insurance Co., asked the justices for a ruling that could have meant a larger reimbursement from a third-party injury award. The genesis for the dispute was a workers' compensation claim, however, the dispute was over a commercial automobile policy that supplemented an errant driver's own coverage. "The bottom line is that Cincinnati asks us to alter its reduction-of-benefits provision related to underinsured motorist claims to make i...