Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 686D - Covid-19 Related Liability

• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Disinfecting or cleaning supplies: means and includes hand sanitizers, disinfectants, sprays, and wipes. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Health care facility: means and includes all of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Health care professional: includes the employer or agent of a health care professional who provides or arranges health care. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Health care provider: means and includes a health care professional, health care facility, home health care facility, and any other person or facility otherwise authorized or permitted by any federal or state statute, regulation, order, or public health guidance to administer health care services or treatment. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Health care services: means services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, care, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Minimum medical condition: means a diagnosis of COVID-19 that requires inpatient hospitalization or results in death. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Person: includes an agent of a person. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Personal protective equipment: means and includes protective clothing, gloves, face shields, goggles, facemasks, respirators, gowns, aprons, coveralls, and other equipment designed to protect the wearer from injury or the spread of infection or illness. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Premises: means and includes any real property and any appurtenant building or structure serving a commercial, residential, educational, religious, governmental, cultural, charitable, or health care purpose. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Public health guidance: means and includes written guidance related to COVID-19 issued by any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• Qualified product: means and includes all of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 686D.2
• State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See Iowa Code 633D.2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.