Second Injury Fund of Iowa v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding an injury to the shoulder joint is compensated as an injury to the body as a whole
• holding an injury to the shoulder joint is compensated as an injury to the body as a whole
• stating “the concept of industrial disability rests on a comparison of what the injured worker could earn before the injury as compared to what the same person could earn after the injury”
• stating “the concept of industrial disability rests on a comparison of what the injured worker could earn before the injury as compared to what the same person could earn after the injury”
• “We have previously held that an injury to a joint such as a hip or shoulder should be treated as an injury to the body as a whole, not as a scheduled injury.”
• “We conclude that section 85.64 requires two scheduled injuries to invoke Fund liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).