2009 Iowa Code
Title 3 - Public Services and Regulation
Subtitle 2 - Employment Services
CHAPTER 85 - WORKERS' COMPENSATION
85.16 - WILLFUL INJURY -- INTOXICATION.

        85.16  WILLFUL INJURY -- INTOXICATION.
         No compensation under this chapter shall be allowed for an injury
      caused:
         1.  By the employee's willful intent to injure the employee's self
      or to willfully injure another.
         2.  By the employee's intoxication, which did not arise out of and
      in the course of employment but which was due to the effects of
      alcohol or another narcotic, depressant, stimulant, hallucinogenic,
      or hypnotic drug not prescribed by an authorized medical
      practitioner, if the intoxication was a substantial factor in causing
      the injury.
         3.  By the willful act of a third party directed against the
      employee for reasons personal to such employee.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 2477-m, -m1; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1376; C46, 50, 54,
      58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85.16] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 105, § 1

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