Tanick: Demise of a doctrine: So long ‘single incident’ 

Posted: 10:22 am Fri, July 23, 2010
By Marshall H. Tanick

A vexing and volatile feature of Minnesota employment law over the past four decades has been the “single-incident” doctrine. A long-standing principle of unemployment compensation proceedings, it was conceived in the common law, codified, modified, retrenched, revived and now revised. Its lineage of restriction and revival culminated in legislation last year that eviscerates it as a ...