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IOWA CITY — In reframing its separation from one paramedic in 2024, the University of Iowa has agreed to a settlement changing his termination to a “voluntary resignation” after an administrative law judge found the employee did not “willfully or wantonly” disregard UI standards of behavior.

The agreement resolves a grievance former UI paramedic Jesse Bevins filed in March 2024, when he was terminated for “using painful stimulation on a patient exhibiting seizure-like activity in violation of the employer’s seizure precaution policy,” according to the judge’s decision in May 2024 to reverse Bevin’s unemployment insurance denial — in part because before his firing he “had never received any war

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