City of Cedar Rapids v. Board of Trustees of the Municipal Fire & Police Retirement System

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• noting that in “workers’ compensation cases, factual causation means medical causation: the employee’s injury must be causally connected to the employee’s employment”
• explaining that “[l]egal causation is a policy question: How far will the law extend responsibility to those consequences which have in fact been produced?”
• noting that three basic issues are usually present in a claim for accidental disability retirement benefits under section 411.6(5):(1) permanent incapacity; (2) causation; and (3) injury or disease
• upholding System’s award of accidental disability benefits to police officer for mental injury, without accompanying physical injury, based on specific stressful events that occurred during work as officer
• reviewing the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System of Iowa's grant of an accidental disability retirement to a police officer, the court applied Iowa Code section 411.6(5)(a
• “We do not ask juries to leave their experiences and common sense behind when deliberating.”

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