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Iowa Code Ann. § 85.16 (WC)

Iowa Code Ann. § 85.16 – Workers’ Compensation

85.16  Willful injury — intoxication.
No compensation under this chapter shall be allowed for an injury caused:
1.  By the employee's willful intent to injure the employee's self or to willfully injure another.
2.  By the employee's intoxication, which did not arise out of and in the course of employment but which was due to the effects of alcohol or another narcotic, depressant, stimulant, hallucinogenic, or hypnotic drug not prescribed by an authorized medical practitioner, if the intoxication was a substantial factor in causing the injury.
3.  By the willful act of a third party directed against the employee for reasons personal to such employee.

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