By subject
The main index is organised by where you are in the problem, which is usually the more useful way in. This one is organised by what happened.
A guide can appear under more than one subject, and several do. The no-fault threshold governs a pedestrian claim and a car claim alike, so it is reachable from both rather than written twice.
Subjects
- How a case actually runs
Service, filing, and the steps between a claim and a courtroom — including the ones that end a case quietly if missed. 12 guides.
- Damages
The categories of loss Minnesota law recognises, and how the arithmetic is ordered. No page here estimates what any claim is worth. 9 guides.
- Fault
How Minnesota apportions responsibility, and why being partly at fault is not the end of a claim. 9 guides.
- No-fault benefits
What your own policy pays regardless of who caused the crash, what it does not pay, and the threshold that governs when you may sue for anything beyond it. 9 guides.
- Car and truck collisions
The most common injury claim in Minnesota, and the one with the most machinery attached — no-fault benefits, a statutory threshold, and coverage layers on both sides. 7 guides.
- Dealing with insurers
What the person on the other end of the phone is doing, what they are obliged to do, and what they are not. 6 guides.
- Deadlines
The part of a case that cannot be fixed later. They vary enormously by defendant and by claim type, and some of the shortest involve government entities. 5 guides.
- Property conditions and falls
What a Minnesota property owner owes someone who comes onto the property, and how that duty changes with why they came. 3 guides.
- Uninsured and underinsured motorists
Coverage you bought that pays when the person who hit you had none or not enough — and the notice a claimant has to give before settling with anyone else. 3 guides.
- Death of a family member
A claim the family does not hold. Minnesota routes it through a court-appointed trustee, on its own clock. 2 guides.
- Dog attacks
Governed by a statute that removes most of what a claimant would ordinarily have to prove, leaving a small number of contested phrases. 2 guides.
- Liens and repayment rights
The health plans, medical providers, and insurers with a claim on a recovery before the injured person sees it — each created by a different statute with a different rule. 2 guides.
- Medical bills
Who pays while a claim is pending, in what order, and what happens to the bills at the end of it. 2 guides.
- Pedestrians and cyclists
Where fault is most often disputed and the injuries are most often severe. Which policy pays first is frequently not the one people expect. 2 guides.