Thursday, May 10, 2012

Iowa Employer's Failure to Carry Work Comp Insurance to be ...

Domenico-Fetti_Archimedes_1620 Wiki.jpgPressure created by Reporter Lee Rood?s Des Moines Register stories about how workers suffer has caused a stir with the Iowa Attorney General?s Office who this past week agreed to pursue enforcement of the law requiring Iowa?s employers to carry workers? compensation insurance. The stories detailed how injured workers were not covered under a workers' compensation insurance policy because employers failed to buy the insurance. The worker gets injured, files a valid claim, wins an award and then sits there because the employers just don't pay. If you think this is no big deal consider that other insurance policies may preclude paying on claims from work injuries. Pick up the Des Moines Register and read Lee Rood's reporting.?

See Reader?s Watchdog: Iowa City workers? comp case will be prosecuted, Lee Rood, April 22, 2012

Reporter Rood?s column is described as; Lee Rood?s Reader?s Watchdog column helps Iowans get answers and accountability from public officials, the justice system, businesses and nonprofits. Contact her atlrood@dmreg.com?or by calling (515) 284-8549. To read past columns, go to DesMoines?Register.com/readerswatchdog.

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