Iowa High Court: Bad Faith Claim Not Available Against Insurer’s Claims Administrator

Mealey's (May 14, 2019, 9:55 AM EDT) -- DES MOINES, Iowa — Under Iowa law, a majority of the state’s high court on May 10 ruled that a common-law cause of action for bad faith failure to pay workers’ compensation benefits is not available against a workers’ compensation insurer’s third-party claims administrator (Samuel De Dios v. Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, et al., No. 18-1227, Iowa Sup., 2019 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 56)....