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• SIEVERS v. IOWA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
  Iowa Supreme Court, 4 WH Cases2d 1438, 7/29/1998, No. 167/97-388
  
  Employer did not violate FMLA in connection with employee who claims that (1) she was discouraged from taking time off to accompany her daughter, who suffered from seizures, from Iowa to South Dakota for chiropractic treatment and (2) she was forced to resign because of her request for time off, since employee has not shown that her daughter's chiropractor was qualified as one "capable of providing health care services" within the Act's definition of serious health condition. There is no proof that the chiropractor qualified as doctor of medicine or osteopathy. Note from chiropractor indicating that daughter had extreme tension in cervical and upper dorsal area and had responded to manipulative therapy does not show that chiropractor was authorized to practice in South Dakota or that South Dakota allowed chiropractor to treat neurological disorders like seizures, and record contained no X-rays to show that daughter suffered from subluxation.