Find Legal Information

85B.12 - HEARING AID PROVIDED.

        85B.12  HEARING AID PROVIDED.
         A reduction of the compensation payable to an employee for
      occupational hearing loss shall not be made because the employee's
      ability to communicate may be improved by the use of a hearing aid.
      An employer who is liable for occupational hearing loss of an
      employee is required to provide the employee with a hearing aid for
      each affected ear unless it will not materially improve the
      employee's ability to communicate.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 85B.12] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1160, § 10