What does it mean the prompt payment of workers’ compensation benefits is required?
Iowa law requires the prompt investigation of workers’ compensation claims. Unless an insurance company has a good reason, a workers’ compensation claim should be accepted or rejected within roughly two weeks of the date the injury is reported. You can make this process work faster by promptly reporting all work injuries to your employer in writing. The law provides for weekly payments of workers’ compensation benefits, beginning on the eleventh day of disability. If the benefits are not paid when due, interest on late payments must be made, regardless of the reasons for the late payments. If benefits are unreasonably delayed or denied, the employee is entitled to penalty benefits up to 50 % of the delayed or denied payments. Once benefits start, the payments can be cut off only when the employee has returned to work, or upon thirty days’ notice stating the reason for the termination, and informing the employee of the right to file a claim with the workers’ compensation commissioner. I
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