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The Minnesota Supreme Court, in Poitra v. Short, 966 N.W.2d 819 (Minn. 2021), recently held “resident-relative” exclusions in insurance policies are not void due to public policy. In 2014, a two-year-old Bentley Poitra was bitten by a dog at his grandparents’ residence. Bentley’s parents, Justen and Debra (“the Poitras”) filed a claim through the grandparent’s… Read more »

In Fish v. Ramler Trucking Inc., 2019 WL 272865 (Minn. Ct. App. Jan. 22, 2019), the Minnesota Court of Appeals determined that Minnesota’s comparative fault statute does not apply to reduce the amount of a judgment entered against a third-party tortfeasor based on the percentage of fault allocated to an employer immune from tort liability… Read more »

The Minnesota Supreme Court, in Soderberg v. Anderson, 922 N.W.2d 200 (Minn. 2019) and in Henson v. Uptown Drink, LLC, 922 N.W.2d 185 (Minn. 2019), declined to abolish the doctrine of implied primary assumption in its entirety, but declined to apply it to claims of negligence arising out of a snowboarding accident and a fatal… Read more »