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Iowa: Annual Profitability Bonus Should Be Included in Injured Worker’s AWW Computation

December 31, 2014 (1 min read)

An Iowa appellate court held that an assistant manager’s annual bonus was sufficiently “regular” to be included in the assistant manager’s “gross salary, wages, or earnings” identified in Iowa Code § 85.36, and should, therefore, be included in the computation of the assistant manager’s average weekly wage for purposes of workers’ compensation injury benefits. The fact that the amount of the bonus varied from year to year, depending upon the profitability of the assistant manager’s department, did not mean the bonus was irregular.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers’ compensation.

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See Menard, Inc. v. Scheffert, 2014 Iowa App. LEXIS 1261 (Dec. 24, 2014) [2014 Iowa App. LEXIS 1261 (Dec. 24, 2014)]

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 93.01 [93.01]

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law

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