Dawn M. Simonson, Respondent, vs. Douglas County, and Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust, Relators

Summary

The Supreme Court of Minnesota held that an employee must rebut the workers’ compensation retirement presumption by a preponderance of the evidence and that the proper test is a case‑specific balancing of factors to determine whether the employee would have retired anyway, even if not disabled. The court affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals’ standard‑of‑proof ruling, reversed its articulation of the rebuttal test, and remanded for further fact‑finding.