Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 85.2 (2026)

Public employees — chapter compulsory

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Where the state, county, municipal corporation, school corporation, area education agency, or city under any form of government is the employer, the provisions of this chapter for the payment of compensation and amount thereof for an injury sustained by an employee of such employer shall be exclusive, compulsory, and obligatory upon both employer and employee, except as otherwise provided in section 85.1. For the purposes of this chapter, elected and appointed officials shall be employees. [S13, §2477-m; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1362; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85.2]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1978–2026 · leading case: Terri Rivera v. Woodward Resource Ctr. & State of Iowa, 830 N.W.2d 724 (Iowa 2013).

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Terri Rivera v. Woodward Resource Ctr. & State of Iowa, 830 N.W.2d 724 (Iowa 2013). · cites it 4× “See Iowa Code § 85.2 (2013) (predecessor codified at Iowa Code § 2477–m(b) (Supp.”

Goebel v. City of Cedar Rapids, 267 N.W.2d 388 (Iowa 1978). · cites it 4× “See § 85.2, The Code. Rather, any benefits they receive under workers' compensation are to be offset against benefits receivable under chapter 97A.”

Casey Mcgill Ginger L. Mcgill Ashlea D. Mcgill & Casey Mcgill, As Parent & Next Best Friend Of Amanda R. Mcgill, Alicia C. Mcgill, & Allison C. Mcgill, Minors Vs. Ben Fish, Thomas Vine, Mark Newton, Robert Selby, & Steven Shaffer, 790 N.W.2d 113 (Iowa 2010). “§ 85.2 (including state workers and the state, as an employer, within the workers’ compensation scheme).”

Sara Montague, individually, & as parent & next friend of C.M., a minor, & as the duly authorized Rep. of the Est. of Robert McFarland v. Beth Skinner, William Sperfslage, Samantha Tucker-Sieberg, Sarah Holder, Daniel Clark, Jeremy Larson, Michael Heinricy, Chad Kerker, Scott Eschen, Brian Tracy, Robert Hartig, Josh Baal, Tracy Dietsch, Jeremy Burds, Jon Day, Lucas Fowler (Iowa 2026). · cites it 76× “Iowa Code § 85.2 (2024). But this means that the chapter as a whole applies, including its reservation for gross negligence claims against co-employees.”

Decatur Cnty. v. Pub. Emp. Relations Bd., 564 N.W.2d 394 (Iowa 1997). · cites it 2× “Iowa Code section 85.2 provides that, when a county is the employer, the provisions of the workers’ compensation law shall be “exclusive, compulsory, and obligatory upon both employer and employee.”

John Larson v. Chad Holmes (Iowa Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 23× “14A(3),” that workers’ compensation was the only remedy available to Larson as a public employee under Iowa Code section 85.2, and that coemployee gross negligence claims are not covered “under the State’s limited waiver of its sovereign immunity” under the ITCA.”

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