The Denison Blawg
Our friend, and fellow attorney, Andrew Bribriesco, wrote an amazing article explaining why and how workers’ benefits under Iowa’s workers’ compensation laws are a rip off for employees, particularly those who worked a lot of overtime or who get employee benefits beyond their wages. Overtime wages do not count dollar-for-dollar and there is no consideration…
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On 9/1/21, the Iowa Court of Appeals held that under Iowa Code section 85.39, when the company doctor gives an opinion that an injury is not work-related, that is the same thing as the doctor saying that the worker has 0% impairment from a work injury. Under section 85.39, if an employee believes that the…
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Jennifer is proud to represent Mary Deng in a workers’ compensation claim against Farmland Foods, Inc., now known as Smithfield Foods, Inc., in Denison, which is pending before the Iowa Supreme Court. The issue in the case is whether the Claimant’s rotator cuff injury is a “shoulder” injury under the new law passed in 2017,…
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Today, in Bauer v. Brinkman, No. 20-0563, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously upheld a grant of summary judgment in favor of Mr. Bradley Brinkman who was sued by Richard Bauer, a local landlord. Bauer sued Brinkman after Brinkman posted on Facebook, among other things, that Bauer was a “slumlord” in the community. Many people saw…
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In Iowa, if two parents exercise shared physical care (aka 50/50 in common parlance), the required child support order(s) end up being way less because they are off-setting. For the parent who doesn’t really care as much about being a shared caretaker, but who more cares about not getting gouged in child support, he or…
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Manufacturing workers, particularly meat packing workers, have extremely difficult and dangerous jobs.
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In January, 2021, I was interviewed by my colleague, Todd Thams, owner of The Thams Agency and Founder of Direct Work Comp, which is a platform people or businesses can use to secure good deals on work comp insurance in a timely manner; like Geico, but for work comp insurance. As co-owner of a construction…
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On 2/17/21, the Iowa Court of Appeals terminated a mother’s parental rights to three of her children in Re: DW, RW, and MW (20-0722). In this case, the parties divorced in 2014 and were each awarded shared care (50/50) of their children. Later, the mom began using meth, DHS got involved, CINA proceedings were initiated,…
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On 2/17/20, the Iowa Court of Appeals, in In re Marriage of Grillo (No. 20-0564), affirmed (agreed with) a district court divorce decree which ordered “split custody” of five kids, placing the three youngest kids with mom, and the two eldest kids with dad. “Split custody” is exceedingly rare. In Grillo, the courts found split…
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