If an employee, while working outside the territorial limits of this state, suffers an injury on account of which the employee, or in the event of death, the employee's dependents, would have been entitled to the benefits provided by this chapter had such injury occurred within this state, such employee, or in the event of death resulting from such injury, the employee's dependents, shall be entitled to the benefits provided by this chapter, if at the time of such injury any of the following is applicable:
1. The employment is principally localized in this state, that is, the employee's employer has a place of business in this or some other state and the employee regularly works in this state, or if the employee's employer has a place of business in this state and the employee is domiciled in this state.
2. The employee is working under a contract of hire made in this state in employment not principally localized in any state and the employee spends a substantial part of the employee's working time working for the employer in this state.
3. The employee is working under a contract of hire made in this state in employment principally localized in another state, whose workers' compensation law is not applicable to the employee's employer.
4. The employee is working under a contract of hire made in this state for employment outside the United States.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 85.71]
97 Acts, ch 106, § 1
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