Text: HF02524 Text: HF02526 Text: HF02500 - HF02599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2525 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO LIMITATIONS ON RECOVERABLE NONECONOMIC DAMAGES 1 5 IN LEGAL ACTIONS ARISING OUT OF MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS. 1 6 1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 8 1 9 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 613.20 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY 1 10 OF MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS. 1 11 1. Except as provided in subsection 2, in an action to 1 12 recover damages arising out of the operation or use of a motor 1 13 vehicle, a person shall not recover noneconomic losses 1 14 including, but not limited to, pain and suffering if the 1 15 injured person was the operator of a motor vehicle, a 1 16 passenger in a motor vehicle, or a pedestrian and the person's 1 17 injuries were proximately caused by the person's commission of 1 18 any felony, or immediate flight therefrom, and the injured 1 19 person was duly convicted of that felony. 1 20 2. This section does not apply if the injured person is 1 21 found to have no fault in the accident. 1 22 3. If a person injured in a motor vehicle accident has 1 23 been formally charged with the violation of the felony 1 24 referred to in subsection 1, but a final determination 1 25 regarding guilt has not been made, liability and uninsured and 1 26 underinsured motorist insurers, to whom a claim for damages 1 27 has been presented, shall advise the injured party that 1 28 settlement of the claim will not be resolved until a final 1 29 judgment is rendered on the charges. The injured party 1 30 claiming damages shall provide evidence of the outcome of any 1 31 criminal charges. 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35 BRENT SIEGRIST 2 1 Speaker of the House 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 MARY E. KRAMER 2 6 President of the Senate 2 7 2 8 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 9 is known as House File 2525, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 10 2 11 2 12 2 13 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 14 Chief Clerk of the House 2 15 Approved , 2000 2 16 2 17 2 18 2 19 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 20 Governor
Text: HF02524 Text: HF02526 Text: HF02500 - HF02599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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