Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 201-S.F.No. 829 
           An act relating to insurance; prohibiting insurers 
          from maintaining subrogation actions against insureds; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 60A. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [60A.41] [SUBROGATION AGAINST INSUREDS 
PROHIBITED.] 
    (a) An insurance company or a company providing reinsurance 
for that insurance company for the coverage may not proceed 
against its insured in a subrogation action where the loss was 
caused by the nonintentional acts of the insured. 
    (b) An insurance company or a company providing reinsurance 
for the coverage may not subrogate itself to the rights of its 
insured to proceed against another person insured for the loss 
being subrogated by the same company to recover a loss caused by 
the nonintentional acts of that insured. 
    Presented to the governor May 19, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 19, 1989, 11:15 p.m.