Gregory J. Johnson - Apple Valley, MN

Awards and Honors

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Education

Current Employment Position(s)

• Founder

• CEO

Past Positions

• Johnson & van Vliet, LLP, Founder & Managing Partner, 1995 - 2009
• Arthur, Chapman & McDonough, P.A, Associate Attorney, 1989 - 1994

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Automobile Repossession in Minnesota: Wrongful Repossession Claims Under Cobb v. Midwest Recovery Bureau, the Uniform Commercial Code and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, November 10, 1999
  
• Speaker, The Garage Liability Policy and the Automobile Dealership: From Auto (BI, UIM, PIP, PD) Claims to Financing (TILA, MMVRISA, ECOA) Claims, Northwest Claims Managers Association, December 6, 1997
  
• Speaker, The Garage Liability Policy and the Automobile Dealership: From Auto (BI, UM/UIM, PIP, PD) Claims to Financing (TILA, MMVRISA, ECOA) Claims, Twin Cities Claims Association, April 18, 1997
  
• Speaker, The Commercial General Liability Coverage Form: What's Covered and What's Not? A Comprehensive Review of Minnesota Case Law Interpreting the Form, National Business Institute, January 28, 1997
  
• Speaker, Rentals, Loaners, Demos, Short Term and Long-Term Leases in Minnesota: Who Has The BI/P.D. Coverage and Responsibility for Damage to the Vehicle?, Twin Cities Claims Association, June 7, 1996
  
• Speaker, The Commercial General Liability Coverage Form: What's Covered and What's Not? A Comprehensive Review of Minnesota Case Law Interpreting the Form, National Business Institute, July 27, 1995
  
• Speaker, From Notice of Claim to Claim Resolution: The Major Coverage Decisions of 1994-1995, Annual Twin Cities Claims Seminar, 1995
  
• Speaker, Advanced Liability Coverage Concerns, Understanding Garage, Rental and Self-Insurance Schemes, Minnesota Automobile Insurance & Claims Seminar, 1994
  
• Speaker, Liability Insurance: An Insider's Look at Self Insurance, Rental Car and Garage Policies and Other Exotic Forms of "Non-Insurance", MDLA/MTLA Education Alliance Seminar, 1994
  
• Speaker, Loaners, Demos, Long-Term and Short Term Leases and Rentals--Who Has the Liability Coverage and Where Is It?, Annual Twin Cities Claims Seminar, 1994
  
• Speaker, Automobile Coverage: Recent Developments and Appellate Decisions, Seventh Annual Minnesota Law & Litigation Seminar, 1994
  
• Guest Instructor, Uninsured and Under insured Motorist Coverage, William Mitchell College of Law, 1994
  
• Speaker, Under insured Motorist Law: What is an "Under insured Motor Vehicle After Richards?, Twin Cities Claims Luncheon, 1993
  
• Speaker, Insurance Coverage: Recent Appellate Decisions, Sixth Annual Minnesota Law & Litigation Seminar, 1993
  
• Speaker, Garage Liability Policies and the No-Fault Act --Who pays, when and how much? Test drives and Loaners, is "Conditional Coverage" Dead?, Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association Seminar, October 25, 2001

Representative Cases

• U.S. Fire Ins. Co. v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 461 N.W. 2d 230
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1990
  • Serial Number: 1990139898
• Kothrade v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 462 N.W. 2d 413
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1990
  • Serial Number: 1990157716
• State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Strope
  • Citation: 481 N.W. 2d 853
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1992
  • Serial Number: 1992050503
• Barneson v. Western National Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 486 N.W.2d 176 (Minn. Ct. App. 1992)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 1992
• Meister v. Western Nat. Mut. Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 479 N.W. 2d 372
  • Court: Minn.
  • Year: 1992
  • Serial Number: 1992025597
• Gieser v. Home Indem. Co.
  • Citation: 484 N.W.2d 256
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1992
  • Serial Number: 1992084583
• Clusiau's Range Drive-U-Self, Inc. v. Federated Mut. Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 1992 WL 340521
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1992
  • Serial Number: 1992200761
• Northbrook Ins. Co. v. American States Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 495 N.W. 2d 450
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1993
  • Serial Number: 1993039404
• Richards v. Milwaukee Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 505 N.W.2d 97 (Minn. Ct. App. 1993)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 1993
• Waataja v. American States Inc. Co.
  • Citation: 1993 WL 89657
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1993
  • Serial Number: 1993076876
• Richards v. Milwaukee Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 518 N.W. 2d 26
  • Court: Minn.
  • Year: 1994
  • Serial Number: 1994141996
• Agency Rent-A-Car, Inc. v. American Family Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 519 N.W. 2d 483
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1994
  • Serial Number: 1994160813
• Kivel v. Milwaukee Guardian Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 1994 WL 637816
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1994
  • Serial Number: 1994228636
• Kinzel, et. al. v. Southview Chevrolet Co.
  • Citation: 892 F. Supp. 1211
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 1995
  • Serial Number: 1995155663
• Davis v. Jensen & Burnett Realty Co.
  • Citation: File No. : C4-96-9971
  • Court: Dakota Cty. Dist.
  • Year: 1996
• In Re All Automobile Dealers v. Minnesota Dept. of Commerce, et. al.
  • Citation: File No.: C9-96-9967
  • Court: Ramsey Cty. Dist. Co.
  • Year: 1996
• Cullen v. Art Goebel, Inc.
  • Citation: 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23682
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1997
• LeBeau v. John Deere Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 574 N.W.2d 83 (Minn. Ct. App. 1998)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 1998
• Sharlow v. Wally McCarthy Pontiac-GMC Trucks-Hyundia, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22726
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Sharlow v. Wally McCarthy Pontiac-GMC Trucks-Hyundia, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22744
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Sharlow v. Wally McCarthy Pontiac-GMC Trucks-Hyundia, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22746
  • Court: 1998 United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Sharlow v. Wally McCarthy Pontiac-GMC Trucks-Hyundia, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22727
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Lindholt, et. al. v. Walser Ford
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22765
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Picht, el. at. v. Stillwater Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22766
  • Court: United States District Court of the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Logan, et al. v. McCarthy's Oldsmobile-GMC Trucks, Inc.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22725
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1998
• Scott v. Forest Lake Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge
  • Citation: 598 N.W.2d 713
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1999
  • Serial Number: 1999197960
• Evans, et. al. v. Rudy-Luther Toyota, Inc.
  • Citation: 39 F. Supp.2d 1177
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 1999
  • Serial Number: 1999081981
• Alsen v. Forest Lake Chrysler-Plymouth
  • Citation: File No.: 82-C3-97-005052
  • Court: Wash. Cty. Dist. Ct.
  • Year: 2000
• Mutual Service Cas. Ins. Co. v. West Bend Mut. Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 599 N.W. 2d 585
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 1999
  • Serial Number: 1999215368
• Revering v. Norwest Bank Minn., N.A.
  • Citation: 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20726
  • Court: 1999 United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1999
• Saice v. MidAmerica Bank
  • Citation: 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20845
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1999
• Ripka v. City & County Employees Credit Union
  • Citation: 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21977
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1999
• Oehrlein v. Western Funding, Inc.
  • Citation: 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17919
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1999
• Clarin v. Minnesota Repossessors
  • Citation: 198 F.3rd 661 (8th Cir. 1999)
  • Court: Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 1999
• Shelly v. Wells Fargo et. al.
  • Citation: 1998 U.S. LEXIS 22580
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 1999
• Scott v. Forest Lake Chrysler
  • Citation: 611 N.W.2d 346 (Minn. 2000)
  • Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
  • Year: 2000
• Johnson v. Credit Acceptance Corp.
  • Citation: 165 F. Supp. 2d 923
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 2001
  • Serial Number: 2001322804
• State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. v. Universal Underwriters Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 625 N.W. 2d 160
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2001
  • Serial Number: 2001326467
• Jacobson v. Universal Underwriters Ins.Group
  • Citation: 645 N.W. 2d 741
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2002
  • Serial Number: 2002392320
• Stevens, et. al v. Brookdale Dodge, Inc.
  • Citation: 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25406
  • Court: United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
  • Year: 2002
  • Serial Number: 2003077742
• Scott v. Forest Lake Chrysler-Plymouth Dodge
  • Citation: 637 N.W.2d 587
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2002
  • Serial Number: 2002034317
• Edlund v. Ridgedale Automotive Inc.
  • Citation: 101 Fed. Appx 180 (8th Cir. 2004)
  • Court: Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 2004
• Reinke v. Harold Chevrolet Inc.
  • Citation: 2004 WL 1152700 (Minn. Ct. App. 2004)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 2004
• U.S. Fidelity & Guarantee Ins. Co. v. Commercial Union Midwest Ins. Co.
  • Citation: 430 F.3rd 929 (8th Cir. 2005)
  • Court: Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 2005
• Wooddale Builders Inc. v. Maryland Casualty
  • Citation: 695 N.W.2d 399 (Minn. Ct. App. 2005)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 2005
• Madigral v. Kline Oldsmobile Inc.
  • Citation: 423 F.3d 819 (8th Cir. 2005)
  • Court: Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 2005
• Liabo v. Wayzata Nissan LLC
  • Citation: 707 N.W.2d (Minn. Ct. App. 2006)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 2006
• Wooddale Builders Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Co.
  • Citation: 722 N.W.2d 283 (Minn. 2006)
  • Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
  • Year: 2006
• In Re SRC Holding Corp. v. Executive Risk Indemnity
  • Court: Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 2009
• VanDanacker, et al v. Main Motor Sales Co.
  • Citation: 109 F. Supp.2d 1045
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 2000
  • Serial Number: 2000455282
• Sharlow v. Wally McCarthy Pontiac-GMC Trucks-Hyundai, Inc.
  • Citation: 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 15627
  • Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Year: 2000
• Vang, et. al v. Morrie's Minnetonka Ford
  • Citation: 2001 WL 1589614
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 2001
  • Serial Number: 2001546876
• Lofquist, et. al. v. Whitaker Buick-Jeep-Eagle, Inc.
  • Citation: 2001 WL 1530907
  • Court: Minn. Ct. App.
  • Year: 2001
  • Serial Number: 2001498223
• Peter, et. al. v. Village Imports Co,
  • Citation: 2001 WL 1640130
  • Court: D. Minn.
  • Year: 2001
  • Serial Number: 2001574013
• Peter v. Village Imports Co.
  • Citation: 2001 WL 1640130 (D. Minn. 2001)
  • Court: Federal District Court--MN
  • Year: 2001
• Ackerlund v. TCF National Bank of MN
  • Citation: 2001 WL 1530907 (D. Minn. 2000)
  • Court: Federal District Court-MN
  • Year: 2000
• Scott v. Forest Lake Chrysler Plymouth Inc.
  • Citation: 668 N.W.2d 45 (Minn. Ct. App. 2003)
  • Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals
  • Year: 2003

Published Works

Articles

• Minnesota Motor Vehicle Insurance Manual, Co-Author, Education Alliance, 2nd Edition, 1994
  
• Minnesota Motor Vehicle Insurance Manual, Co-Author, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 1991
  
• Automobile Repossession in Minnesota: Wrongful Repossession Claims Under Cobb v. Midwest Recovery Bureau, the Uniform Commercial Code and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 1999
  
• The Garage Liability Policy and the Automobile Dealership: From Auto (BI,UIM, PIP, PD) Claims to Financing (TILA, MMVRISA, ECOA) Claims, Northwest Claims Managers Association, 1997
  
• The Garage Liability Policy and the Automobile Dealership: From Auto (BI, UM/UIM, PIP, PD) Claims to Financing (TILA, MMVRISA, ECOA) Claims, Twin Cities Claims Association, 1997
  
• The Commercial General Liability Coverage Form: What's Covered and What's Not? A Comprehensive Review of Minnesota Case Law Interpreting the Form, National Business Institute, 1997
• Rentals, Loaners, Demos, Short Term and Long-Term Leases in Minnesota: Who Has The BI/P.D. Coverage and Responsibility for Damage to the Vehicle?, Twin Cities Claims Association, 1996
• The Commercial General Liability Coverage Form: What's Covered and What's Not? A Comprehensive Review of Minnesota Case Law Interpreting the Form, National Business Institute, 1995
• From Notice of Claim to Claim Resolution: The Major Coverage Decisions of 1994-1995, Twin Cities Claims Association, 1995
• Loaners, Demos, Long-Term and Short Term Leases and Rentals--Who Has the Liability Coverage and Where Is It?, Annual Twin Cities Claims Seminar, 1994
• Automobile Coverage: Recent Developments and Appellate Decisions, Minnesota Law & Litigation Seminar, 1994
• Miller-Shugart Settlements and the Claims Professional: Recognizing and Understanding the Exposure and Using it as an Effective Settlement Tool, 1993
• Minnesota Motor Vehicle Insurance Manual , Co-Author, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education , 2001 Supplement, 2001
• Minnesota Motor Vehicle Insurance Manual, Co-Arthur, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 3rd Edition, 2000

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 1989
• U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1990

Other Affiliations

• Minnesota State Bar Association (Member)
• National Association of Dealer Counsel (Member)