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Minn. Stat. § 65B.46

RIGHT TO BENEFITS.

Known as the Minnesota No-Fault Automobile Insurance Act

The act spans §§ 65B.41 to 65B.71 (29 sections).

Applied in 48 court decisions — leading case State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1986)

Most recently applied in Rodriguez v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (July 2019)

1974 c 408 s 6; 1978 c 674 s 57; 1980 c 539 s 1; 1987 c 337 s 104

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Subdivision 1. Motor vehicle or motorcycle accident in this state.

If the accident causing injury occurs in this state, every person suffering loss from injury arising out of maintenance or use of a motor vehicle or as a result of being struck as a pedestrian by a motorcycle has a right to basic economic loss benefits.

Subd. 2. Motor vehicle or motorcycle accident outside this state.

If the accident causing injury occurs outside this state in the United States, United States possessions, or Canada, the following persons and their surviving dependents suffering loss from injury arising out of maintenance or use of a motor vehicle or as a result of being struck as a pedestrian by a motorcycle have a right to basic economic loss benefits:

(1) insureds, and

(2) the driver and other occupants of a secured vehicle, other than (a) a vehicle which is regularly used in the course of the business of transporting persons or property and which is one of five or more vehicles under common ownership, or (b) a vehicle owned by a government other than this state, its political subdivisions, municipal corporations, or public agencies. The reparation obligor may, if the policy expressly states, extend the basic economic loss benefits to any stated area beyond the limits of the United States, United States possessions and Canada.

Subd. 3. Limitation; motorcycle injuries.

For the purposes of sections 65B.41 to 65B.71 , injuries suffered by a person while on, mounting or alighting from a motorcycle do not arise out of the maintenance or use of a motor vehicle although a motor vehicle is involved in the accident causing the injury.

Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.