Iowa Code
Iowa Code § 616.18 (2026)
Personal injury or damage actions
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Actions arising out of injuries to a person or damage to property may be brought in the county in which the defendant, or one of the defendants, is a resident or in the county in which the injury or damage is sustained. [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §616.18]
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Cited in 23
cases, 1947–2020 · leading case: Richards v. Anderson Erickson Dairy Co., 699 N.W.2d 676 (Iowa 2005).
Richards v. Anderson Erickson Dairy Co., 699 N.W.2d 676 (Iowa 2005). “Iowa Code § 616.18 In 1941, the legislature enacted a law permitting plaintiffs in motor vehicle accidents to sue in the county in which the injury was sustained.”
Tull v. Honda Rsch. & Dev., Ltd., 469 N.W.2d 683 (Iowa 1991). “Iowa Code § 616.18 (1946) (citing 1941 Iowa Acts, ch.”
Johnson v. Nelson, 275 N.W.2d 427 (Iowa 1979). “The question presented is whether a legal malpractice action properly may be brought under § 616.18, The Code, 1977, in the county where an underlying civil suit was dismissed, or whether it must be brought under § 616.”
Hulburd v. Eblen, 33 N.W.2d 825 (Iowa 1948). “Plaintiff appeals and assigns as error’: (1) that the court erred in dismissing plaintiff’s petition for lack of jurisdiction for the reason that under section 616.18, Code of 1946, actions arising out of injuries to a person or damages to a property caused by the operation of…”
Benton v. Slater, 605 N.W.2d 3 (Iowa 2000). “That statute states: Actions arising out of injuries to a person or damage to property may be brought in the county in which the defendant, or one of the defendants, is a resident or in the county in which the injury or damage is sustained.”
Crumrine v. Neg Micon USA, Inc., 104 F. Supp. 2d 1123 (N.D. Iowa 2000). “” Iowa Code § 616.18 . “Section 616.18 was initially enacted as a special venue statute governing the trial of motor vehicle accident claims.”
Froman v. Keokuk Health Sys., Inc., 755 N.W.2d 528 (Iowa 2008). “KHS contended venue was proper only in Keokuk because the north and south Lee County divisions of the district court are different counties for venue purposes.”
Reimers v. Honeywell, Inc., 457 N.W.2d 336 (Iowa 1990). “Iowa Code § 616.18 (personal actions must be brought in county where one of defendants resides).”
Becker v. Wright, 540 N.W.2d 250 (Iowa 1995). “They asserted venue was proper under Iowa Code section 616.18 as that section allowed suit in the county where defendants resided or where injury or damage was sustained.”
Addison Ins. Co. v. Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight, L.L.C., 734 N.W.2d 473 (Iowa 2007). “Iowa Code section 616.18 (2003) provides: Actions arising out of injuries to a person or damage to property may be brought in the county in which the defendant, or one of the defendants, is a resident or in the county in which the injury or damage is sustained.”
Cannon v. Century Constr. Co., 106 N.W.2d 65 (Iowa 1960). “ribution as a result of a judgment rendered against plaintiffs in that court, which judgment was the result of an automobile accident in Lee County, and that “defendant, Century Construction Company, is an *90 Iowa corporation, with its principal place of business in Polk County…”
Slattery v. Iowa Dist. Court for Johnson Cnty., 442 N.W.2d 82 (Iowa 1989). “See Iowa Code § 616.18 . 3 Based on the written and oral arguments of counsel, and the interplay between the various venue provisions of Iowa Code chapter 616 (1987), the trial court determined that “both Jackson and Johnson County are proper venues.”
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