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IN RE STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO.

Nos. A13-2176, A14-0167, A14-0245.

854 N.W.2d 249 (2014)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondent (A13-2176), GEICO Insurance Company, Respondent (A14-0167), v. Metropolitan Council, Appellant, Lashandra Scott, Respondent (A13-2176), Adelfa Javana, Respondent (A13-2176), Donald Brooks, Respondent (A13-2176), Lataura McKinney, et al., Defendants (A13-2176), Robert Burgin, III, et al., Defendants (A14-0167) and Metropolitan Council, Appellant, v. Gregg Powell, Respondent (A14-0245).

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

September 22, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Todd Koebele , Scott G. Williams , Murnane Brandt , St. Paul, MN, for respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

John R. Crawford , Benjamin A. Johnson , Johnson & Lindberg, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for respondent GEICO Insurance Company.

Daniel L. Abelson , Associate General Counsel, Metropolitan Council, St. Paul, MN; and Jeannie Provo-Petersen , Daniel J. Stahley , Provo-Petersen & Associates, P.A., Lake Elmo, MN, for appellant Metropolitan Council.

Charles D. Slane , Jennifer E. Olson , TSR Injury Law, Bloomington, MN, for respondent Lashandra Scott.

Sharifa Elaraj , William Moody , Veronica Walther , Elaraj & Associates, Minneapolis, MN, for respondent Adelfa Javana.

Christina M. Kath , Osterbauer Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN, for respondent Donald Brooks.

Lindsay M. Mancini , Paul A. Thompson , Woods & Thompson, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for respondent Gregg Powell.

Charles A. Bird , Jeremy R. Stevens, Bird , Jacobsen & Stevens, P.C., Rochester, MN, for amicus curiae Minnesota Association for Justice.

Considered and decided by REYES, Presiding Judge; HOOTEN, Judge; and WILLIS, Judge.

OPINION

WILLIS, Judge*.

In these consolidated appeals from district court decisions that buses owned and operated by appellant are "motor vehicles" for purposes of the Minnesota No-Fault Automobile Insurance Act, making appellant liable for payment of basic-economic-loss benefits to passengers without their own auto insurance who are injured on its buses, appellant argues that...

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