Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

549.05 COSTS IN CERTAIN CASES COMMENCED IN DISTRICT COURT OF FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COGNIZABLE BY MUNICIPAL COURT. In any action commenced in the district court of the Fourth Judicial District, no costs or disbursements shall be allowed the plaintiff where there is a municipal …

549.06 SEVERAL ACTIONS; COSTS, HOW ALLOWED. When several actions are brought on one instrument, or for the same cause of action, against several parties who might have been joined as defendants in the same action, costs shall be allowed to the plaintiff in but one of such actions…

549.07 EQUITABLE ACTIONS; SEVERAL DEFENDANTS. In equitable actions, costs may be allowed or not, and, if allowed, may be apportioned between the parties on the same or adverse sides, in the discretion of the court. When there are several defendants not united in interest, and mak…

549.08 ACTION ON JUDGMENT. Costs shall not be allowed to plaintiff in an action upon a domestic judgment between the same parties, unless such action was brought with previous leave of the court for cause shown; but this shall not apply to an action upon the judgment of a justice…

549.09 INTEREST ON VERDICTS, AWARDS, AND JUDGMENTS. § Subdivision 1.When owed; rate. (a) When a judgment or award is for the recovery of money, including a judgment for the recovery of taxes, interest from the time of the verdict, award, or report until judgment is finally entere…

549.11 COSTS ALLOWED ON MOTION OR DEMURRER. Costs may be allowed on motion, demurrer, or appeal from taxation of costs, in the discretion of the court or judge, not exceeding $10, and may be absolute, or directed to abide the event of the action. History: (9479) RL s 4346

549.12 AGAINST GUARDIAN OF INFANT PLAINTIFF. When costs or disbursements are adjudged against an infant plaintiff, the guardian by whom the infant appears in the action shall be responsible for them, and judgment therefor may be entered against both infant and guardian. History: …

549.13 DEFENDANT AFTER TENDER. When in an action on contract, express or implied, the defendant alleges in the answer that before the commencement of the action the defendant tendered to the plaintiff the full amount to which the plaintiff was entitled, and thereupon deposits in …

549.14 CHARGEABLE ON ESTATE OR FUND. In an action prosecuted or defended by an executor, administrator, trustee of an express trust, or person expressly authorized by statute, costs and disbursements may be recovered as in an action by and against a person prosecuting or defendin…

549.15 RELATOR ENTITLED TO, AND LIABLE FOR, COSTS. When an action or proceeding is instituted in the name of the state on the relation or petition of any citizen, such relator or petitioner is entitled to, and liable for, costs and disbursements in the same cases and to the same …

549.17 ADDITIONAL COSTS ON CHANGE OF VENUE; AMOUNT; PAYMENT OR WAIVER OF; TAXATION. When service of summons is made upon a defendant within a county of which the defendant is an actual resident at the time of such service, and the place of trial of such action is thereafter chang…

549.18 SECURITY FOR COSTS. When an action is begun in the district court by a plaintiff who is committed for a crime, or is a nonresident or a foreign corporation, or when such action is brought into the district court on appeal by defendant, such plaintiff shall file a bond to t…

549.19 NEGLECT TO FILE SECURITY; PROSECUTION OF BOND. When any party shall commence an action without filing a bond, or fail to provide an additional bond when so required, the court, on motion of defendant, may order a stay of all proceedings in such action, or a dismissal there…

549.191 CLAIM FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. Upon commencement of a civil action, the complaint must not seek punitive damages. After filing the suit a party may make a motion to amend the pleadings to claim punitive damages. The motion must allege the applicable legal basis under section…

549.20 PUNITIVE DAMAGES. § Subdivision 1.Standard. (a) Punitive damages shall be allowed in civil actions only upon clear and convincing evidence that the acts of the defendant show deliberate disregard for the rights or safety of others. (b) A defendant has acted with deliberate…

549.211 SANCTIONS IN CIVIL ACTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Acknowledgment required. The parties by their attorneys in a civil action shall attach to and make a part of the pleading, written motions, and papers served on the opposite party or parties a signed acknowledgment stating that …

549.25 FUTURE DAMAGES; PAYMENT. Where a claimant is awarded an amount representing future damages greater than $100,000, the court shall hold a hearing prior to ordering entry of judgment to allow the claimant to consider whether payment of the future damages over time as the dam…

549.30 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Application. For purposes of sections 549.30 to 549.41, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 2.Annuity issuer. "Annuity issuer" means an insurer that has issued an annuity contract to be used to fund periodic …

549.35 REGISTRATION; SURETY BOND. § Subdivision 1.Registration required. A person shall not act as a transferee, attempt to acquire structured settlement payment rights through a transfer from a payee who resides in this state, or file a structured settlement transfer proceeding …

549.36 PROHIBITED PRACTICES; PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Prohibited practices. A transferee or structured settlement purchase company and an employee or other representative of a transferee or structured settlement purchase company shall not engage in the following actions: (1) pu…

549.37 REQUIRED DISCLOSURES TO PAYEE. Not less than ten days before the date on which a payee signs a transfer agreement, the transferee shall provide to the payee a separate disclosure statement, in bold type no smaller than 14-point font, setting forth the following: (1) the am…

549.38 CONDITIONS AND APPROVAL OF TRANSFERS OF STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT PAYMENT RIGHTS AND STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Conditions; approval. (a) No direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured settleme…

549.39 EFFECTS OF TRANSFER OF STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT PAYMENT RIGHTS. Following a transfer of structured settlement payment rights: (1) the structured settlement obligor and the annuity issuer may rely on the court order approving the transfer in redirecting periodic payments to an…

549.40 PROCEDURE FOR APPROVAL OF TRANSFERS. § Subdivision 1.Application; proof of registration. An application under sections 549.30 to 549.41 for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights must be made by the transferee. The application must be brought in the…

549.405 APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY ADVISER. § Subdivision 1.Discretionary appointment. The court is authorized and may, in its discretion, appoint an attorney to make an independent assessment and advise the court whether the proposed transfer is in the best interest of the payee, t…

549.41 GENERAL PROVISIONS; CONSTRUCTION. § Subdivision 1.Waiver prohibited. The provisions of sections 549.30 to 549.41 may not be waived by a payee. § Subd. 2.Choice of law; venue. Any transfer agreement entered into by a payee who is domiciled in this state must provide that di…