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Iowa Code § 85A.4 (2026)

Disablement defined

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As used in this chapter, “disablement” means the event or condition where an employee becomes actually incapacitated from performing the employee’s work or from earning equal wages in other suitable employment because of an occupational disease as defined in this chapter in the last occupation in which such employee is injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85A.4] 2021 Acts, ch 76, §19

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1980–1994 · leading case: McSpadden v. Big Ben Coal Co., 288 N.W.2d 181 (Iowa 1980).

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McSpadden v. Big Ben Coal Co., 288 N.W.2d 181 (Iowa 1980). · cites it 3× “Both the words “disability” and “pneumoco-niosis” are statutorily defined, see §§ 85A.4, .13(1), The Code, and thus “have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law.”

Doerfer Div. of CCA v. Nicol, 359 N.W.2d 428 (Iowa 1984). · cites it 4× “Finally, occupational disease “disablement” is defined in section 85A.4 as “the event or condition where *434 an employee becomes actually incapacitated from performing his work or from earning equal wages in other suitable employment.”

Noble v. Lamoni Prods., 512 N.W.2d 290 (Iowa 1994). · cites it 4× “” Iowa Code § 85A.4; see Doerfer Div. of CCA v.”

Frit Indus. v. Langenwalter, 443 N.W.2d 88 (Iowa Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 2× “Iowa Code section 85A.4 states: Disablement as that term is used in this chapter is the event or condition where an employee becomes actually incapacitated from performing the employee’s work or from earning equal wages in other suitable employment because of an occupational…”

Croft v. John Morrell & Co., 451 N.W.2d 501 (Iowa Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 2× “Finally, occupational disease “disablement” is defined in section 85A.4 as “the event or condition where an employee becomes actually incapacitated from performing his work or from earning equal wages in other suitable employment.”

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