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WALDINGER CORP. v. METTLER

No. 10-0502.

817 N.W.2d 1 (2012)

The WALDINGER CORPORATION, Emcasco Insurance Company, and Second Injury Fund of Iowa, Appellants, v. Michael B. METTLER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 6, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Brian Scieszinski of Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants Waldinger Corporation and Emcasco Insurance Company.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Deborah M. Stein , Assistant Attorney General, for appellant Second Injury Fund.

Harry W. Dahl , Des Moines, for appellee.

HECHT, Justice.

On further review, we are asked to determine whether Iowa's workers' compensation statute allows a claimant to recover healing period benefits — after he has reached maximum medical improvement and returned to substantially similar work following a work-related injury — for a period of approximately thirteen weeks of postsurgical convalescence during which he was unable to work. The workers' compensation commissioner awarded such benefits...

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