P.D.S.I. v. Peterson

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• concluding a fault-based interpretation of statutes “has no place in workers’ compensation law”
• noting agency has no special power to interpret case law or statutes and therefore court does not give agency any deference in this respect
• noting the “agency’s application of the law to the facts” will be overturned “if we determine [the] application was irrational, illogical, or wholly unjustifiable” (citing Iowa Code § 17A.19(10)(m))
• \We see nothing in the workers' compensation statutes that convinces us that the legislature has delegated any special powers to the agency regarding its interpretation of ... statutes.\

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