This week, the Minnesota Supreme Court in Alonzo v. Menholt expressly adopted negligent selection of an independent contractor as a cause of action in Minnesota courts. In establishing that a general contractor may be held liable for the negligence of selecting an independent contractor, the Court also laid out several factors used to evaluate such a claim....

On December 4, the Minnesota Court of Appeals put to test a 2022 Minesota Supreme Court ruling in Justice v. Marvel, LLC which held that, for a liability waiver to release a party from its own negligence, the waiver’s language must be specific, clear, and unequivocal....