Minnesota Asset Protection & Claims Guide

01 / Total loss / salvage threshold

Total loss / salvage threshold

Minnesota has no verified insurer settlement percentage threshold.

The 80% figure in Minn. Stat. § 168A.151 applies to a self-insured owner’s salvage or prior-salvage title branding, not to the insurer’s settlement decision.

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 168A.151

02 / The insurer’s total-loss settlement duty

The insurer’s total-loss settlement duty

For a covered total loss, Minnesota requires the insurer to offer a comparable available replacement vehicle or a cash settlement based on the actual cost of a comparable vehicle.

The offer must include applicable taxes, license fees, and transfer fees. If no comparable vehicle is locally available, the insurer must use two or more quotations from qualified local sources, or explain and document a deviation.

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 72A.201, subd. 6(1)

03 / Time limit to pursue a third-party diminished value claim

Time limit to pursue a third-party diminished value claim

A Minnesota personal-property injury claim, including third-party diminished value, generally has a six-year limitation period.

Minn. Stat. § 541.05, subd. 1(4)-(5) states six years for injury to personal property and other injury to another’s rights not otherwise enumerated. It does not expressly identify a date-of-repair trigger; treat ordinary accrual as controlling unless a court holds otherwise. First-party diminished value remains policy-dependent.

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 541.05, subd. 1(4)-(5)

04 / Repair shop choice, parts disclosure and PDR

Repair shop choice, parts disclosure and PDR

Minnesota prohibits coercing an insured to use a particular repair shop and requires the advisory “You have the legal right to choose a repair shop.”

Minnesota also prohibits requiring non-OEM parts as a condition of payment, subject to policy and legal limits. No Minnesota PDR-specific statute, licensing rule, or hail-repair standard was verified.

Citation: Minn. Stat. § 72A.201, subd. 6(7)

05 / Hail damage treatment

Hail damage treatment

No Minnesota hail-specific total-loss exclusion was verified.

The supplied Minnesota research does not verify a hail-specific exclusion from the total-loss calculation.

Citation: No Minnesota hail-specific total-loss exclusion was verified in the supplied research.

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