Daniels v. Hi-Way Truck Equipment, Inc.

ANDREASEN, Justice.

Iowa’s workers’ compensation law provides that an employer or the employer’s insurer is required, under certain circumstances, to pay a specified amount to the Second Injury Fund (Fund) if a compensable injury results in the death of an employee who leaves no dependents. Iowa Code §§ 85.65-66 (1989) as amended 89 Acts, ch. 33, § 1. Here we must decide if an employer or its insurer may recover death benefits paid to the Fund from a wrongful death action settlement under either statutory indemnification rights or under equitable indemnification principles. The district court…