Can you sue for injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident if you’re not wearing a helmet in Minnesota? The answer is yes, but not wearing a helmet can be a defense that the defendant or the insurance carrier can raise. So if the other driver hits you or forces you off the road or for some other reason you become involved in a motorcycle crash and it’s somebody else’s fault, that person can look to you and say, “I can understand how you broke your leg and I can understand why your ribs are fractured and I can understand maybe why you have back problems, but that closed head injury that you have, and maybe the post-concussive symptoms that you might have, I get to tell the jury that if you wore a helmet you wouldn’t have many of those things, and that’s a defense to the claims that you might bring.” So the answer is yes, but they can raise that issue in front of the jury.