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86.44 CONFIDENTIALITY.
All verbal or written information relating to the subject matter
of an agreement and transmitted between any party to a dispute and a
mediator to resolve a dispute pursuant to this chapter or chapter 85,
85A, or 85B, during any stage of a mediation or a dispute resolution
process conducted by a mediator as provided in this section, whether
reflected in notes, memoranda, or other work products in the case
files, is a confidential communication except as otherwise expressly
provided in this chapter. Mediators involved in a mediation or a
dispute resolution process shall not be examined in any judicial or
administrative proceeding regarding confidential communications and
are not subject to judicial or administrative process requiring the
disclosure of confidential communications.
For purposes of this section, "mediator" means a chief deputy
workers' compensation commissioner or deputy workers' compensation
commissioner acting in the capacity to resolve a dispute pursuant to
this chapter or chapter 85, 85A, or 85B, or an employee of the
division of workers' compensation involved during any stage of a
process to resolve a dispute. Section History: Recent Form
94 Acts, ch 1064, §2; 98 Acts, ch 1061, §8, 11
Referred to in § 22.7
