Minnesota Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Minnesota or Court of Appeals of Minnesota where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Ray - 5/25/2000
Respondent Harry N. Ray is currently suspended from the practice of law after being twice disciplined by this court. See In re Ray, 452 N.W.2d 689 (Minn. 1990) (In re Ray II); In re Ray, 368 N.W.2d 924 (Minn. 1985) (In re Ray I). The...
Canfield v. Grinnell Mutual Reinsurace Company - 5/23/2000
Reversed and remanded Foley, Judge* *Retired judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, serving by appointment pursuant to Minn. Const. art. VI, § 10.
Considered and decided by Randall Presiding Judge, Amundson Judge, and Foley...
Strickland v. Vencor - 5/16/2000
Appellant Rita Strickland challenges the dismissal of her breach-of-contract claims for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. We affirm.
FACTS
Margaret Louise Peterson, a resident of Woodside...
In re Speed Limit for Union Pacific Railroad - 5/16/2000
Relator Union Pacific Railroad challenges the authority of the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation to impose a ten-miles-per-hour speed limit along a one-mile segment of its track in downtown Shakopee. Union...
In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Graham - 5/11/2000
Respondent, Chester C. Graham, has been licensed to practice law in Minnesota since October 1983. Since that time, he has had an extensive disciplinary history. In February 1985, Graham was admonished for incompetence, neglect, and...
Kaiser-Bauer v. Mullan - 5/2/2000
Reversed and remanded
Lansing, Judge
Considered and decided by Davies, Presiding Judge, Lansing, Judge, and Harten, Judge.
SYLLABUS
When the trial court submits several liability theories to the jury and it...
Reyes v. Galland - 3/28/2000
Pro se appellant challenges the district court's denial of his motion to proceed in forma pauperis and its dismissal of his claim with prejudice. Because we see no abuse of discretion, we affirm.
FACTS
On February 8,...
Westbrooke Patio Homes Associtaion - 3/21/2000
Appellant, the owner of a townhouse, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, received a discharge, and paid no further townhouse assessments. Respondent townhouse association filed this action to foreclose a lien on appellant's townhouse and...
Anderson v. Rengachary - 3/16/2000
Concurring in part, dissenting in part, Anderson, Paul H., J. Concurring in part, dissenting in part, Gilbert, J.
Office of Appellate Courts
Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.
O P I N I O N ...
Halvorson v. Halvorson - 3/7/2000
In this marital dissolution action, appellant Genevieve Halvorson contends the court erred in failing to award her an additional $13,000 because her allegedly non-marital personal injury settlement was used to pay respondent Stephen...
Breitkreutz v. State - 3/7/2000
After being sentenced for convictions of three counts of criminal sexual conduct, appellant Steven Breitkreutz petitioned for post-conviction relief. He alleged that his attorney was ineffective and that the trial court improperly...
State v. Williams - 3/2/2000
On February 10, 1998 Hakim Jamal Williams, appellant, was convicted by a jury in Hennepin County of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and first-degree burglary, among other offenses, in connection...
St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company v. Green Lake State Bank - 2/29/2000
Appellant insured challenges adverse summary judgment declaring that respondent insurer had no duty to defend appellant for claims in an underlying action or to indemnify appellant for the settlement costs of those claims. Because we...
State v. Weatherspoon - 2/29/2000
Appellant challenges his convictions for first-degree sexual assault and terroristic threats. Appellant asserts that the district court lacked jurisdiction over his criminal trial because he made a formal request, as a detainee in...
State v. Mitchell - 2/29/2000
In this appeal from a presumptive sentence for second-degree murder, appellant challenges the district court's refusal to grant a downward durational departure. We affirm.
FACTS
Appellant Richard Patrick Mitchell and...
Racine v. AMCO Insurance Co. - 2/22/2000
Appellant AMCO Insurance Company contests the district court's denial of its motion to vacate an arbitration award. AMCO contends that the arbitrator clearly exceeded his authority by finding the economic consumption of the decedent...
Tower Insurance Co. - 2/22/2000
Appellant insurance company challenges a judgment requiring it to indemnify its insured for a liability arising from the insured's negligent brokering services. We reverse.
FACTS
Richard and Cathy Radel sought from...
Engwall v. General Motors Corporation - 2/17/2000
Appellant Soo Line Railroad Company challenges the Minnesota Court of Appeals' dismissal of its appeal from a final judgment of the Hennepin County District Court. Before entering final judgment, the district court had granted...
State v. Duwenhoegger - 2/1/2000
Appellant Jerry Joseph Duwenhoegger challenges his convictions for burglary, interference with a 911 call, and trespass. He argues that the jury instructions on the interference with a 911 call deprived him of his right to a...
Palmer v. Erlandson - 12/27/1999
Appellants Jeffery L. Palmer and Lisa Palmer challenge the district court's dismissal of their medical malpractice action for failure to serve an affidavit of expert identification as required by Minn. Stat. § 145.682, subds. 2(2), 4...
Conant v. Robins - 12/21/1999
Considered and decided by Amundson, Presiding Judge, Toussaint, Chief Judge, and Klaphake, Judge.
SYLLABUS
1. Taxpayers do not have standing to challenge costs and attorney fees that settling defendants paid to a special...
Illinois Farmers Insurance Company v. Schmuckler - 12/14/1999
ReversedKlaphake, Judge
Considered and decided by Randall, Presiding Judge, Klaphake, Judge, and Peterson, Judge.
SYLLABUS
Under Minn. Stat. § 60A.41 (1998), an insurer may not subrogate itself to the rights of its...
Illinois Farmers Insurance Company v. Wubben - 12/14/1999
KLAPHAKE, Judge
Respondent Illinois Farmers Insurance Company (Illinois Farmers) brought this declaratory judgment action against Yvette Wubben, who was insured under a homeowner's policy issued by Illinois Farmers, and...
Soltis-McNeal v. Erickson - 12/14/1999
Appellant City of White Bear Lake challenges the district court's denial of its summary judgment motion based on a claim of statutory immunity. Because the governmental conduct challenged by respondent Sandra Soltis-McNeal is...
Nemechek v. Byron - 12/14/1999
HARTEN, Judge
Appellants, homeowners, brought this action against respondent City after sewage backed up into their home. The district court granted City summary judgment because more than ten years had elapsed since...
Tousignant v. St. Louis County - 11/30/1999
Appellant Violet Tousignant challenges the district court's dismissal of her medical malpractice lawsuit for failure to comply with the expert affidavit requirements of Minn. Stat. § 145.684. We affirm.
FACTS
Appellant...
Ung v. Bradley - 6/29/1999
Appellant Lyon County Cooperative Oil Company challenges the denial of its motion for sanctions under Minn. R. Civ. P. 11 against respondent Susan Ung, claiming the district court erred in determining that notice to respondent was a...
Christiansen v. Riscomp Industries Inc. - 6/22/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Klaphake, Judge
Reversed and Remanded
After slipping and falling on an allegedly wet floor at the...
Williams v. Dayton Hudson Corp. - 6/15/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
The district court ordered summary judgment against Frances Williams' personal injury claims....
State v. Cox - 6/15/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Concurring specially, Randall, Judge
SCHULTZ, Judge
Appellant challenges the district...
State v. Pilot - 6/3/1999
James Diandre Pilot seeks review of a court of appeals decision affirming a jury verdict finding him guilty of attempted first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder while committing criminal sexual assault, and first-degree...
Bode v. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - 6/1/1999
Reversed Lansing, Judge
Considered and decided by Willis, Presiding Judge, Lansing, Judge, and Schumacher, Judge.
SYLLABUS
I. Subject-matter jurisdiction, in its strict sense, is a court's power to hear and determine...
Powell v. Trans Global Tours Inc. - 6/1/1999
Appellants, Craig Powell, a tour participant injured by falling from a hotel balcony, and his wife, challenge the summary judgment granted to respondent, the tour operator, and allege on appeal that the exculpatory clause in the...
Flagg v. Fairview Ridges Hospital - 5/25/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Toussaint, Chief Judge
Appellant Darlene Flagg challenges summary judgment for respondent...
Sloneker v. Enck - 5/25/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded
Shumaker, Judge
Appellant Jerry Sloneker contends...
Pascuzzi v. Wilson - 5/18/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Willis, Judge
Appellant Deborah Pascuzzi challenges adverse summary judgment, claiming the...
Lundgren v. Green - 5/11/1999
Appellant argues the district court erred, as a matter of law, when it ruled that personal service had been effected when the process server, instead of leaving service at appellant's usual place of abode, left service with...
State v. Leroy - 5/11/1999
Appellant argues that double jeopardy bars her retrial on a fifth- degree assault charge on which the jury voted to acquit before declaration of a mistrial. We affirm.
FACTS
Appellant Susan Leroy was tried on one charge...
S.W. v. Spring Lake Park School District No. 16 - 5/4/1999
Appellant challenges the district court's rejection of its motion for summary judgment on the ground it is entitled to vicarious official immunity. Because appellant is not entitled to share in the immunity granted to its employees,...
In re Marriage of Havrilak - 5/4/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Lansing, Judge
lant pro se
This is an appeal from judgment in a marital dissolution action and a...
In re Estate of Jobe - 3/23/1999
The estate of Alice Jobe appeals from the district court's determination that respondent Ottertail County Department of Social Services (the county) is entitled to reimbursement of medical assistance benefits received by her husband...
Fluck v. Jacobson Machine Works Inc. - 3/23/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part
Holtan, Judge Retired Judge of the district court, serving as Judge of...
Coppage v. City of St. Paul - 3/16/1999
In a wrongful death action arising out of a house fire in which five children died, the district court granted summary judgment dismissing claims against respondents, a municipality and the prior owners of the house, on the ground...
In re Marriage of Martin - 3/16/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Considered and decided by Halbrooks, Presiding Judge, Crippen, Judge, and Mulally, Judge. ...
Kvenvold v. Freeborn County Sheriff''s Dept. - 3/11/1999
This workers' compensation matter comes before us by certiorari on the relation of the Freeborn County Sheriff's Department, self-insured employer, to review an order of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals (WCCA) awarding...
In re Marriage of Vondal - 3/9/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Huspeni, Judge Retired Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, serving by appointment pursuant to...
Fraser v. Phillips Investment Co. - 3/9/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed
Klaphake, Judge
Helen Fraser appeals from a verdict directed in favor of Merle Corporation...
Fairbanks v. Ketroser - 3/9/1999
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1998).
Affirmed Kalitowski, Judge
Appellant Barbara Jean Fairbanks challenges the district court's grant of summary...
Marsden v. Crawford - 3/2/1999
SCHUMACHER, Judge
Appellant Amy Marsden (Norby), mother and natural guardian for Riley Lin Marsden, a minor, (Marsden) challenges the trial court's grant of summary judgment dismissing her claim that respondent Katherine...
Ivers v. Church of St. William - 12/22/1998
Affirmed; motion denied
Willis, Judge
On appeal from summary judgment for respondents, Michael Ivers challenges the district court's dismissal of his claims relating to (1) sexual abuse; (2) breach of contract; (3)...
Brown v. Bradley Real Estate Trust - 12/22/1998
Reversed
Peterson, Judge
[Editor's note: originally released as an unpublished opinion]
On appeal from a summary judgment in a personal injury action, appellants Wendy and Robert Brown challenge the district court's...
In re Crosby - 12/15/1998
Pointing to evidence of conflict between the parties, appellant, who was named as sole legal custodian of the parties' two children, challenges the trial court's determination that respondent should provide nearly one-half of the...
Lindberg v. Health Partners Inc. - 12/15/1998
Following the trial court's dismissal of medical malpractice suit pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 145.682, appellant Stewart Lindberg contends that his 180-day affidavit was sufficient to comply with the statute and that the court further...
Tousignant v. St. Louis County - 12/8/1998
This opinion will be unpublished and may not be cited except as provided by Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (1996).
Affirmed
Davies, Judge
Appellants assert that vicarious official immunity bars respondent Violet...
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