The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Const. art. IV; Minn. Stat. ch. 3
- In force
- No start date could be read from the record.
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- employers; owners or persons in control of premises; specified businesses
- Character
- negative finding
- Collection
- Standing duties: Minnesota DUT-MN
Penalty
Ordinary tort liability; workers' compensation liability under the ch. 72 presumption.
What it required
Because no shield existed, no Minnesota business acquired immunity by complying with health standards; every business remained answerable under ordinary negligence law and under the standing duties (DUT-MN-003, 005, 007, 011, 012) and the orders' conditions for injury caused by unlawful or unsafe operation, and the Legislature's one liability enactment ran the other way: Laws 2020, ch. 72 (Apr. 7, 2020) made COVID-19 a presumptively compensable occupational disease for front-line employees (Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-067). Character as recorded: negative_finding (no shield enacted; no instrument).
Retrieval noteThe LRL guide's catalogue of enacted COVID-19 laws contains no civil-liability or immunity act, and no such act appears in the 2021 first-special-session chapters held in the library (Ex. MN-041, MN-042, MN-058). Shield bills were introduced in other States' pattern; no Minnesota bill number was verified in this phase and none is cited. Status graded verified_secondary; a drafter who needs the point by name should cite the LRL guide and the Husch Blackwell or Ogletree 50-State surveys, as the CT and CA Duties files do, after reading them.