United States Eighth Circuit

Iowa law does not impose tort liability on a workers' compensation insurer for bad-faith failure to monitor and direct the medical treatment being furnished by the employer-insured to an injured employee. insurer's duty in this situation is limited to paying workers' compensation benefits to which the employee is entitled.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/05/2004
• Published 08/05/2004

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, RICHARD S. ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Johnson, argued, Cedar Rapids, IA (Wythe Willey and Timothy S. White, on the brief), for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Megan Manning Antenucci, argued, Des Moines, IA (Theodore C. Simms II, on the brief), for appellee.