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Minnesota high court revives widow’s public safety death benefit claim - Business Insurance Skip to content Register for free Search Search Log In Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Risk Management Cyber Risks Pricing Trends Mergers & Acquisitions Technology Sponsored Content WSIA RISKWORLD Workers Comp & Safety Workers Comp Cost Control Pain Management Workplace Safety International EMEA Asia-Pacific Latin America People Events BI Intelligence Top 100 Agents & Brokers Best Places to Work 2025 Lists Directories Insurance Pricing BI Stock Index Magazine Current Issue Past Issues Subscribe Women to Watch ALL INsurance Resources Risk Perspectives Sponsored Content Webinars White Papers Minnesota high court revives widow’s public safety death benefit claim by Louise Esola Claims Disputes , Workers Comp Coverage , Workplace Safety Jun 4, 2026 The Minnesota Supreme Court revived a widow’s claim for public safety officer death benefits, ruling that state officials applied too narrow a standard in denying benefits after an Anoka police officer died from a vascular rupture shortly after his final shift. In a ruling issued Wednesday, the high court affirmed in part and reversed in part a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision in the case of Eric William Groebner, a patrol officer with the Anoka Police Department who worked a 12-hour shift on Sept. 13, 2022, responded to 11 calls and died the following day from a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with cardiac tamponade. His widow, Holly Groebner, sought Minnesota line-of-duty death benefits after the federal Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Office approved benefits, finding that Mr. Groebner died within 24 hours of engaging in nonroutine stressful physical emergency response activity. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety denied the state claim. The state’s high court held that, under Minnesota’s public safety officer death benefit statute, emergency response activity is presumptively “nonroutine” regardless of how often an agency performs such work or how the agency characterizes the response. The court also held that any qualifying activity must be nonroutine, stressful or strenuous, and physical. The justices said factual disputes remain over whether Mr. Groebner’s final shift involved qualifying law enforcement or emergency response activity, and that the administrative law judge erred in granting summary disposition to the state. The court also ruled that even if the statutory presumption does not apply or is rebutted, an officer’s estate may still present medical evidence to prove the officer was killed in the line of duty under earlier Minnesota case law. The case was remanded to the Court of Administrative Hearings. 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