1. All employees subject to the provisions of this chapter who shall become disabled
from injurious exposure to an occupational disease designated and defined in this chapter
and within the conditions, limitations, and requirements provided in this chapter, shall
receive compensation, reasonable surgical, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, physical
rehabilitation, nursing, and hospital services and supplies therefor, and burial expenses as
provided in the workers’ compensation law of Iowa except as otherwise provided in this
chapter.
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Tue Dec 09 22:29:46 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 85A (26, 0)
§85A.5, OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE COMPENSATION 2\n\n 2. If, however, an employee incurs an occupational disease for which the employee would
be entitled to receive compensation if the employee were disabled as provided in this chapter,
but is able to continue in employment and requires medical treatment for said disease, then
the employee shall receive reasonable medical services therefor.
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85A.5]
2020 Acts, ch 1063, §44
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Notes of Decisions
Doerfer Div. of CCA v. Nicol, 359 N.W.2d 428 (Iowa 1984).
· cites it 2× “” Section 85A.5 (“Compensation payable”) provides that all employees subject to the chapter “who shall become disabled” shall receive compensation.”
Noble v. Lamoni Prods., 512 N.W.2d 290 (Iowa 1994).
· cites it 2× “Iowa Code § 85A.5. “Disablement” is defined in the act as “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.”
McSpadden v. Big Ben Coal Co., 288 N.W.2d 181 (Iowa 1980).
“If the claimant is able to continue in employment, however, § 85A.5 permits the payment of only reasonable medical services.”
Croft v. John Morrell & Co., 451 N.W.2d 501 (Iowa Ct. App. 1989).
· cites it 2× “” Section 85A.5 (“Compensation payable”) provides that all employees subject to the chapter “who shall become disabled” shall receive compensation.”
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