Legal Opinion

Progressive Specialty Insurance Co. v. Widness Ex Rel. Widness

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided November 21, 2001No. C7-00-33PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LANCASTER, Justice.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether the Minnesota No-Fault Automobile Insurance Act requires that an insurer provide residual liability coverage to the child of a named insured when the child is not a named insured and is driving a vehicle not owned by anyone in the named insured’s household, with permission of the vehicle owner. We conclude it does not.

On August 8, 1994, an uninsured vehicle owned by Melissa Baardsen was involved in a one-vehicle rollover accident in Dead Lake Township in Otter Tail County. The vehicle was driven with Baardsen’s permission…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Lobeck v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
  2. Current Technology Concepts, Inc. v. Irie Enterprises, Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
  3. Hertz Corp. v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
  4. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. v. Auto-Owners Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1988
  5. Anderson v. Commissioner of TaxationSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1958

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bloomington Steel & Supply Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 2006
  2. Miller v. ACE USADistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 2003
  3. Kimberly-Clark Corporation & Subsidiaries, Relators/Cross-Respondents v. Commissioner of Revenue, Respondent/Cross-Appellant.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 2016
  4. Associated Bank, N.A. v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co.District Court, D. Minnesota · 2012
  5. Mitsch v. American National Property & Casualty Co.Court of Appeals of Minnesota · 2007

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