Chapman v. Craig

SCHULTZ, Justice.

We are asked to reconsider our adoption of the fireman’s rule and to abolish it. We recently adopted the rule in a dramshop action denying a policeman a recovery in those cases in which the action is grounded on the same conduct that created the need to call for the officer’s assistance. Potteb-aum v. Hinds, 347 N.W.2d 642, 647 (Iowa 1984). We later limited the rule by refusing to apply it to situations in which the officer is performing a law enforcement activity unrelated to the violation that required the officer’s presence. Gail v. Clark, 410 N.W.2d 662, 666 (Iowa 1987).…