Ask a your personal injury law question, get an answer ASAP!
Thousands of highly rated, verified your personal injury lawyers.
Automobile accidents, negligence, medical malpractice, liability, and more
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 670.9

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
670.9 Compromise and settlement.
The governing body of any municipality may compromise, adjust, and settle tort claims against the municipality and its officers, employees, and agents for damages under section
670.2 or 670.8 and may appropriate money for the payment of amounts agreed upon. [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §613A.9]
C93, §670.9
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §115; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §163
Referred to in §331.303