Dunlavey v. Economy Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the phrase “personal injuries” in Iowa Code section 85.3(1) includes a mental injury standing alone
• holding that personal injuries under Iowa Code section 85.3(1) encompass pure and nontraumatic mental injuries
• following Marti’s formulation of “factual causation” (an issue of fact) and “legal causation” (an issue of law)
• noting opinions based on incomplete history are not binding on the commissioner
• stating in deciding whether to accept the opinion of an expert witness “[t]he commissioner as trier of fact has the duty to determine the credibility of the witnesses and to weigh the evidence, together with the other disclosed facts and circumstances, and then to accept or reject the opinion”
• whether injury has a direct causal connection is especially within the domain of expert testimony

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