IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
85.20 - RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEE EXCLUSIVE.
85.20 RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEE EXCLUSIVE.
The rights and remedies provided in this chapter, chapter 85A or
chapter 85B for an employee, or a student participating in a
school-to-work program as provided in section 85.61, on account of
injury, occupational disease or occupational hearing loss for which
benefits under this chapter, chapter 85A or chapter 85B are
recoverable, shall be the exclusive and only rights and remedies of
the employee or student, the employee's or student's personal or
legal representatives, dependents, or next of kin, at common law or
otherwise, on account of such injury, occupational disease, or
occupational hearing loss against any of the following:
1. Against the employee's employer.
2. Against any other employee of such employer, provided that
such injury, occupational disease, or occupational hearing loss
arises out of and in the course of such employment and is not caused
by the other employee's gross negligence amounting to such lack of
care as to amount to wanton neglect for the safety of another.
3. For a student participating in a school-to-work program,
against the student's school district of residence, receiving school
district if the student is participating in open enrollment under
section 282.18, accredited nonpublic school, community college, and
directors, officers, authorities, and employees of the applicable
school corporation. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2477-m2; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1380; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85.20] Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 37, § 1
Referred to in § 85.22, 258.10, 670.12