Saint Cloud, MN
Construction and development Lawyer at Saint Cloud, MN
Practice Areas: Construction & Development, Car Accidents ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Nominal settlement payment
Personal injury action alleging non-fatal complete severing of aorta in teenager resulting from use of dangerous flying towable product behind a boat. The manufactuer, who was sued by the injured pers ... on, in turn sued our client, the injured person's father and the driver of the boat at the time. Our client was dismissed after making a nominal settlement payment.
OUTCOME: Default judgment against remodeling company
Obtained and collected judgment on behalf of homeowners and against general contractor of home remodeling project for non-payment of bills to subcontractors in violation of Minn. Stat. § 514.02 subd. 1 ...
OUTCOME: Summary judgment in favor of client
Successfully defended client against subrogation claims brought by his landlord's insurance company. My client was alleged to have caused property damage to the building in which he runs a salon. The ... owner of the building collected on a claim to his insurance company, RAM, who in turn sued my client to recover the amounts paid to the landlord. The court granted summary judgment in favor of my client under an established rule in Minnesota that the tenant (my client) is an additional insured under the RAM property insurance policy and, thus, RAM cannot sue its own insured.
OUTCOME: Dismissal in favor of client
My client performed the framing work on townhomes in the Twin Cities area and was among a handful of subcontractors named as defendants for alleged defects in Plaintiff Luke's unit. A settlement was r ... eached which did not require any payment by my client, in part because it was demonstrated that no parties had proof of any defective work by my client.
OUTCOME: Dismissal of claims against client affirmed on appeal
We were hired to represent a farmers cooperative on appeal in a case initiated by the City of Worthington. The city was trying to obtain judgment against our client for cleanup of a grain elevator pro ... perty that was allegedly a public nuisance. The property had been sold by our client before the city initiated its nuisance proceedings. The trial court determined that the claims against our client should be dismissed because our client no longer owned the property when the city ordered that it be cleaned up. We successfully obtained an affirmation of the trial court's decision from the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment in favor of client
Successfully represented homeowner's insurer of homeowner who had been criminally convicted for furnishing alcohol to an underage teenager whose inebriation led to a fatal car accident. The court ente ... red summary judgment declaring that Grinnell had no obligation to provide insurance coverage for the guilty homeowner.
OUTCOME: Partial plaintiff's verdict
Defended general contractor, Sand Companies, in case initiated by developer of luxury apartment building for claims related to defective design and installation of fire sprinkler system by a now-defunc ... t subcontractor to Sand Companies. Plaintiff recovered small percentage of total amount requested at trial. The jury denied the claim for lost rental income of more than $1 million and awarded only the amounts relating to repairs performed following water leaks in the sprinkler system. We later obtained judgment in trial court (confirmed on appeal) ordering Sand Companies' insurers to pay the cost of the repairs.
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