Minnesota Lawyer

Some Black employees at Supervalu distribution center in Hopkins have found a hostile work environment at the least, and a threatening and dangerous one on occasion.

Things are looking up for plaintiffs in the massive multi-district litigation against 3M over its patient warming device, the Bair Hugger, since the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month cried foul and reversed a summary judgment for the defendant in Amador v. 3M.

Persons expecting — counting on — protection they or their employers have purchased in disability insurance policies may be in for devastating disappointment, lawyers say.

Some changes including limits on insurers’ ability to claim a favorable standard of review of denials have been made that are favorable to employees, attorney Katherine MacKinnon said.

The cure for an improperly closed Schwartz hearing is a new, open hearing, not necessarily a new trial, the Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression.

A railroad conductor with a hearing aid who lost his job was awarded more than $43 million by an apparently angry jury when his case finally got to trial.

Chief Justice Lorie Gildea says the success of remote access, made necessary by the pandemic, has yielded ideas for embracing technology going forward.

An emergency meeting led to the “Other Side” workgroup which planned and implemented procedures to help the judiciary ramp up to address the pandemic and also how to ramp down.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life in a Bair Hugger lawsuit against 3M Co. Plaintiff John Petitta may now pursue his products liability claim in Texas state court, where he had filed suit three years earlier.

In Waconia the construction of a dock garnered controversy. Unfortunately for the city, its own ordinance dashed the hopes of enjoining Jayson and Cristine Dock’s dock.