Donald A. Westling v. Hormel Foods Corporation

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide whether the workers’ compensation commissioner correctly decided that a worker failed to prove his claimed disability was causally related to a work injury. Because an award for partial permanent disability for an unscheduled injury under Iowa Code section 85.34(2)(%) (2005) is determined by industrial disability, rather than by functional impairment, the commissioner used the correct standard to determine the causal relation between the work injury and the alleged disability. Furthermore, substantial evidence supports the commissioner’s…