IBP, Inc. v. Burress

776 N.W.2d 102 (2009)

IBP, INC., Appellee,

v.

Lee BURRESS, Appellant.

No. 07-1887.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 10, 2009.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 2009.

Jason D. Neifert of Max Schott & Associates, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Timothy A. Clausen and Sharese Manker of Klass Law Firm, L.L.P., Sioux City, for appellee.

STREIT, Justice.

Pigs give us bacon and ham. They can also give meat packers brucellosis. Lee Burress contracted brucellosis while working at IBP, Inc.'s meat-packing plant. He did not discover he had the disease until six years after he left IBP's employment. Soon thereafter, he…