State Farm Fire & Casualty v. Aquila Inc.

OPINION

PORITSKY, Judge.*

Appellants, owners and insurers of property damaged by the explosion of a natural-gas pipeline, brought suit against respondents, one of which is the owner of the pipeline, and the other is the firm that installed it. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of respondents on the ground that appellants’ suits were barred by Minn.Stat. § 541.051 (2004), the statute of repose for improvements to real property. Appellants contend that the district court erred (1) in determining that the natural-gas pipeline at issue constituted an “improvement to real…