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Iowa Code § 669.21

Employees defended and indemnified

Known as the Iowa Tort Claims Act

The act spans §§ 669–669 (27 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Joshua N. Thomas v. Officers Tim Gavin, Chuck Tygart, Jess Bernhard, and Adam Olson Deputy Sheriff Luke Hruby Reserve Deputy Sheriff Joshua Gersten the City of North Liberty, Iowa and Johnson County, Iowa (2013)

Most recently applied in Gregory Baldwin v. City of Estherville, Iowa Matt Reineke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Estherville Police Department and Matt Hellickson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Estherville Police Department (June 2018)

[C77, 79, 81, §25A.21]

How often courts cite this section

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the state shall defend any employee, and shall indemnify and hold harmless an employee against any claim as defined in section 669.2, subsection 3, paragraph “b”, including claims arising under the Constitution, statutes, or rules of the United States or of any state.

2. a. The duty to indemnify and hold harmless shall not apply and the state shall be entitled to restitution from an employee if the employee fails to cooperate in the investigation or defense of the claim, as defined in this section, or if, in an action commenced by the state against the employee, it is determined that the conduct of the employee upon which a tort claim or demand was based constituted a willful and wanton act or omission or malfeasance in office.

b. The duty to indemnify and hold harmless shall not apply if, in a suit commenced against the employee, the state has been substituted as the defendant in place of the employee, as provided in section 669.5.

84 Acts, ch 1259, §2

C93, §669.21

98 Acts, ch 1086, §2; 2006 Acts, ch 1185, §113

Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.