Cases

• Harkins v. Grant Park Ass’n, No. A20-0937 (Minn. Apr. 6, 2022) (rejecting lower court holding that a common interest association must disclose to members all records it maintains, and restricting disclosure to documents from categories listed in Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-118).
• Simmons v. Cudd Pressure Control, Inc. and Murex Petroleum Co., 2022 ND 20 (reversing multi-million dollar award for defense and indemnity costs and ordering judgment for Murex).
• Musta v. Mendota Heights Dental Ctr., 965 N.W.2d 312 (Minn. 2021) (holding that federal law preempts state court order requiring workers’ compensation carrier to pay for employee’s medical cannabis), cert. denied, No. 21-676 (June 21, 2022).
• Tile Shop Holdings, Inc. v. Allied World Nat’l Assur. Co., 981 F.3d 655 (8th Cir. 2020) (affirming favorable order for summary judgment based on the “prior-acts” exclusion, in eight-figure coverage dispute).
• Aegis Ins, Srvcs, Ltd., et al. v. General Electric Co., et al., Case No. A19-0640 (Minn. App. Feb. 10, 2020), review denied (Minn. Apr. 28, 2020) (affirming favorable judgement and orders denying JMOL or a new trial following jury verdict in nine-figure dispute over liability for explosion of a steam-powered generator).
• Great Am. Alliance Ins. Co. v. Windermere Baptist Conf. Ctr., Inc., 931 F.3rd 771 (8th Cir. 2019) (reversing adverse order for summary judgment and remanding for judgment of dismissal in eight-figure dispute over “additional-insured” coverage).
• Rarick v. Federated Service Ins. Co., 852 F.3d 223 (3rd Cir. 2017) (reversing adverse order for remand to state court and establishing test in Third Circuit for a federal court’s discretion to refuse jurisdiction over a claim for declaratory relief, in class-action coverage dispute).
• Linda E. Walsh, v. Warrenn C. Anderson, et al., 2016 WL 7439087 (Minn. Ct. App. Dec. 27, 2016), review denied (Minn. March 14, 2017) (affirming favorable order dismissing legal malpractice action based on the inadequacy of plaintiff’s expert affidavit under Minnesota Statutes Chapter 544).
• MDC Acquisition Co. v. Traveler’s Prop. Cas. Co. of Am., __ Fed. App’x. __, No. 12-4340, 2013 WL 5811962 (6th Cir. Oct. 30, 2013) (affirming favorable order for summary judgment based on the “unsolicited-communications” exclusion and rejecting contention that renewal notice adding the exclusion was inadequate, in eight-figure dispute over coverage for underlying TCPA class action).
• Engineering & Constr. Innovations, Inc. v. L.H. Bolduc Co., 825 N.W.2d 695 (Minn. 2013) (reversing adverse appellate decision and ordering judgment of dismissal in coverage dispute over “additional-insured” coverage for an underlying construction claim).
• Butts ex rel. Iverson v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc., 802 N.W.2d 839 (Minn. App. 2011), review denied (Minn. Oct. 26, 2011) (reversing adverse order permitting voluntary dismissal of action and ordering judgment of dismissal with prejudice based on the abatement of claims as a matter of law due to death from unrelated causes).
• Cynosure, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 645 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2011) (reversing adverse order for summary judgment and remanding for entry of judgement of dismissal because the underling eight-figure TCPA class-action did not allege a claim within policy coverage).
• W3i Mobile, LLC v. Westchester Fire Ins. Co., 632 F.3d 432 (8th Cir. 2011) (affirming favorable order for summary judgment based on “good-or-products” exclusion in D&O policy, in dispute over coverage for an underlying class action).
• Kingsley v. Pinto, No. A10-1197, 2011 WL 1743840 (Minn. App. May 9, 2011) (affirming favorable order denying new trial following verdict in a medical-malpractice action and agreeing that a claim for negligent nondisclosure did not apply).
• Keely v. Germscheid, 2010 WL 2265682 (Minn. App. June 8, 2010) (affirming favorable order denying new trial following verdict in a medical-malpractice action and agreeing that a claim for negligent nondisclosure did not apply).
• Glumak v. Duluth Clinic, Ltd., 2010 WL 87881 (Minn. App. January 12, 2010) (affirming favorable order dismissing medical-malpractice action based on the inadequacy of the affidavit required under Minn. Stat. § 145.682).
• Master Blaster, Inc. v. Dammann, 781 N.W.2d 19 (Minn. App. 2010) (affirming favorable order for summary judgment requiring common-law indemnity because a timely common-law tender of defense bound the Minnesota indemnitor to the outcome of a South Dakota jury trial).
• Mertz v. 999 Quebec, Inc., 780 N.W.2d 446 (N.D. 2010) (splitting 2-2-1 on question of when a survival cause of action accrues under North Dakota law).
• West Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. U.S. Fidelity and Guar. Co., 598 F.3d 918 (7th Cir. 2010) (affirming favorable summary judgment because the “pollution exclusion” in both a primary and an umbrella policy precluded coverage for an underlying class-action suit alleging that the insured’s gas station contaminated the groundwater in a residential neighborhood).
• Juetten v. LCA-Vision, Inc., 777 N.W.2d 772 (Minn. App. 2010) (affirming favorable order dismissing medical-malpractice action under Minn. Stat. § 145.682 and ruling that formally adding an agent as a party does not avoid dismissal when the statute requires dismissal of the principal).
• Haag v. Fairview Health Services, 2009 WL 1684459 (Minn. App. June 16, 2009)
• Hautala v. ALZA Corp., 2009 WL 1515444 (Minn. App. June 2, 2009)
• St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Brother Intern. Corp., 319 Fed. Appx. 121 (3rd Cir. 2009)
• Glanzer v. Reed, 757 N.W.2d 417 (S.D. 2008)
• Whole Enchilada, Inc. v. Travelers Property Cas. Co. of America, 581 F.Supp.2d 677 (W.D. Pa. 2008)
• Delgado v. Neurosurgical Associates, Ltd., 2008 WL 1867936 (Minn. App. April 29, 2008)
• Lindsay v. St. Olaf College, 2008 WL 223661 (Minn. App. January 29, 2008)
• Melrose Hotel Co. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co., 503 F.3d 339 (3rd Cir. 2007)
• ACS Systems, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 53 Cal. Rptr. 3d 786, 794 (Cal. App. 2007)
• Carlson v. SALA Architects, 732 N.W.2d 324 (Minn. Ct. App. 2007)
• Hypoguard, et al. v. St. Paul Fire, 2007 WL 4236427 (Minn. App. Dec. 4, 2007)
• Innsbruck Village Ass'n v. Stock Roofing, Inc., 2006 WL 3772286 (Minn. App. December 26, 2006)
• Seren Innovations, Inc. v. Transcontinental Ins. Co., 2006 WL 1390262 (Minn. App. May 23, 2006)
• Urban v. American Legion, Dept. of Minnesota, 723 N.W.2d 1 (Minn. 2006)
• Barradas v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 2006 WL 852102 (Minn. App. April 4, 2006)
• Resource Bankshares Corp. v. St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co., 407 F.3d 631 (4th Cir. 2005)
• City of Elkhorn v. 211 Centralia Street Corp., 685 N.W.2d 874 (Wis. Ct. App. 2004)
• Compaq Computer v. St. Paul Fire, 2003 WL 22039551 (Minn. Ct. App. Sept. 2, 2003)
• Metropolitan Property & Cas. Co. v. Miller, 589 N.W.2d 297 (Minn. 1999)
• Anderson v. Minnesota Insurance Guaranty Ass’n, et. al., 534 N.W.2d 706 (Minn. 1995), reh’g denied (Sept. 20, 1995)
• Midwest Federal Savings v. American Casualty Co., 10 F.3d 568 (8th Cir. 1993)

Amicus Curiae appearances

• Harkins v. Grant Park Ass’n, No. A20-0937 (Minn. Apr. 6, 2022) (rejecting lower court holding that a common interest association must disclose to members all records it maintains, and restricting disclosure to documents from categories listed in Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-118)
• Glorvigen v. Cirrus Design Corp., 816 N.W.2d 572 (Minn. 2012)
• Glorvigen v. Cirrus Design Corp., 796 N.W.2d 541 (Minn. App. 2011)
• Swanson v. Brewster, 784 N.W.2d 264 (Minn. 2010)
• In re Buckmaster, 755 N.W.2d 570 (Minn. App. 2008)
• MacRae v. Group Health Plan, Inc., 753 N.W.2d 711 (Minn. 2008)
• Wakefield Pork, Inc. v. Ram. Mut. Ins. Co., 731 N.W.2d 154 (Minn. App. 2007)
• Jerry’s Enterprises v. Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, 711 N.W.2d 811 (Minn. 2006)
• Rowe v. Munye, 702 N.W.2d 729 (Minn. 2005)
• Metropolitan Sports Facilities Comm’n v. Minnesota Twins Baseball Club, (Minn. App. Jan. 16, 2002), review denied (Minn. Feb. 4, 2002)
• Meadowbrook Inc. v. Tower Ins. Co., 559 N.W.2d 411 (Minn. 1997)