Iowa Code
Chapter 85 - WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
Section 85.64 - Limitation of benefits.

85.64 Limitation of benefits.
1. If an employee who has previously lost, or lost the use of, one hand, one arm, one foot, one leg, or one eye, becomes permanently disabled by a compensable injury which has resulted in the loss of or loss of use of another such member or organ, the employer shall be liable only for the degree of disability which would have resulted from the latter injury if there had been no preexisting disability. In addition to such compensation, and after the expiration of the full period provided by law for the payments thereof by the employer, the employee shall be paid out of the “Second Injury Fund” created by this subchapter the remainder of such compensation as would be payable for the degree of permanent disability involved after first deducting from such remainder the compensable value of the previously lost member or organ.
2. Any benefits received by any such employee, or to which the employee may be entitled, by reason of such increased disability from any state or federal fund or agency, to which said employee has not directly contributed, shall be regarded as a credit to any award made against said second injury fund as aforesaid.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85.64]
2014 Acts, ch 1026, §18
Referred to in §86.12

Structure Iowa Code

Iowa Code

Title III - PUBLIC SERVICES AND REGULATION

Chapter 85 - WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Section 85.1 - Inapplicability of chapter.

Section 85.1A - Proprietors, limited liability company members, limited liability partners, and partners.

Section 85.2 - Public employees — chapter compulsory.

Section 85.3 - Acceptance presumed — notice to nonresident employers.

Section 85.16 - Willful injury — intoxication.

Section 85.18 - Contract to relieve not operative.

Section 85.20 - Rights of employee exclusive.

Section 85.21 - Payments concerning liability disputes.

Section 85.22 - Liability of others — subrogation.

Section 85.23 - Notice of injury — failure to give.

Section 85.24 - Form of notice.

Section 85.25 - Service of notice.

Section 85.26 - Limitation of actions — who may maintain action.

Section 85.27 - Services — release of information — charges — payment — debt collection prohibited.

Section 85.28 - Burial expense.

Section 85.29 - Liability in case of no dependents.

Section 85.30 - Maturity date and interest.

Section 85.31 - Death cases — dependents.

Section 85.32 - When compensation begins.

Section 85.33 - Temporary total and temporary partial disability.

Section 85.34 - Permanent disabilities.

Section 85.35 - Settlements.

Section 85.36 - Basis of computation.

Section 85.37 - Compensation schedule.

Section 85.38 - Reduction of obligations of employer.

Section 85.39 - Examination of injured employees.

Section 85.40 - Statement of earnings.

Section 85.41 - Refusal to furnish statement.

Section 85.42 - Conclusively presumed dependent.

Section 85.43 - Payment to spouse.

Section 85.44 - Payment to actual dependents.

Section 85.45 - Commutation.

Section 85.47 - Basis of commutation.

Section 85.48 - Partial commutation.

Section 85.49 - Trustees for minors and dependents.

Section 85.50 - Report of trustee.

Section 85.51 - Alien dependents in foreign country.

Section 85.52 - Consular officer as trustee.

Section 85.53 - Notice to consular officer.

Section 85.54 - Contracts to avoid compensation.

Section 85.55 - Franchisor-franchisee relationship.

Section 85.56 - Employees in interstate commerce.

Section 85.59 - Benefits for inmates and offenders.

Section 85.60 - Injuries while in work-based learning opportunity, employment training, or evaluation.

Section 85.61 - Definitions.

Section 85.62 - Inmates of county jail.

Section 85.63 - Title of Act.

Section 85.64 - Limitation of benefits.

Section 85.65 - Payments to second injury fund.

Section 85.65A - Payments to second injury fund — surcharge on employers.

Section 85.66 - Second injury fund — creation — custodian.

Section 85.67 - Administration of fund — special counsel — payment of award.

Section 85.68 - Actions — collection of payments — subrogation.

Section 85.69 - Federal contributions.

Section 85.70 - Additional payment for attendance — rehabilitation and training — new career vocational training and education program.

Section 85.71 - Injury outside of state.

Section 85.72 - Claims for benefits made outside of state — restrictions — credit.