Regie De L'Assurance Automobile Du Quebec v. Jensen

KELLEY, Justice.

Respondent Regie de 1’assurance Automobile due Quebec (the Regie) 1 commenced an equitable subrogation action against Appellant Lauritz Jensen to recover certain payments it had made to Douglas Grapes, the surviving spouse of Marguerite Grapes who had been killed in a Minnesota automobile accident when riding in a car struck by Jensen’s pickup truck. The trial court held (1) that under Minnesota law the equitable subrogation action was not maintainable; (2) that Douglas Grapes and Marguerite’s next of kin could assign their claims for damages arising from her death by wrongful…