Legal Opinion
Balmer v. Hawkeye Steel
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided January 20, 2000No. 98-1078PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVORATO, Justice.
In this employment termination case, we must decide whether constructive discharge, standing alone, is an actionable tort in Iowa. The district court concluded it was not and sustained a motion for directed verdict as to an at-will employee’s claim of wrongful termination. We agree and affirm.
Priscilla Balmer worked at Hawkeye Steel in Haughton, Iowa, from February 1994 to April 1996. She was an employee at will.
In July 1996 Balmer sued Hawkeye. She alleged that while employed she was subjected to verbal and mental harassment and abuse and that Hawkeye did nothing to stop…
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