Legal Opinion
Samuel De Dios v. Indemnity Insurance Company of North America and Broadspire Services, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 10, 2019No. 18-1227PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Justice.
A worker was injured on the job when his vehicle was rear-ended. He filed a claim for benefits with the workers compensation commissioner. Later, he filed a bad-faith action in the district court against his employer's workers' compensation carrier and its third-party administrator. The action was removed to federal court.
The federal district court has asked us to answer the following certified question of Iowa law: "In what circumstances, if any, can an injured employee hold a third-party claims administrator liable for the tort of bad faith for failure to pay workers'…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Natividad v. Alexsis, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1994
- Anderson v. Continental InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1978
- Gibson v. ITT Hartford Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 2001
- Robert Lodholtz v. York Risk Services Group, IncoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2015
- Wathor v. Mutual Assurance Administrators, Inc.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 2004
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