About this site

Who writes it

My name is Dan Swenson. I am a data nerd who is also a Minnesota workers' compensation attorney and a city council member. Public information should not be hard to use, so I build this network of sites as a hobby: I pull scattered public records out of PDFs and government databases and turn them into tools regular people can actually use. I do not use these sites to find legal clients, except for MN Comp Buddy which is my actual day job. The tools are free. The sites pay for their own hosting through clearly disclosed referral links and a few optional paid guides.

This site is an educational publication in the self-help tradition: it explains two federal regulations in plain English, cites its sources, and gives readers tools to use themselves. It is not a law firm acting for you, and nothing here is legal or medical advice about your situation. Reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Why it exists

The Eyeglass Rule and the Contact Lens Rule exist because the person who measures your eyes also, usually, sells the thing the measurement unlocks, and Congress and the FTC decided that conflict should not trap you. The rules work, but only for people who know them, and the industry has decades of practice at quietly not mentioning them. This site exists to even that up: the rule text, the citations, and the exact words to use.

How it makes money

One way: some retailer links on the buying-guide pages may be referral links that pay this site a small commission. A referral fee never changes the price you pay, no retailer pays to appear here or to rank or to be described a certain way, and the descriptions do not change when a link becomes a referral link. Everything informational is free: the rules, the scripts, and every citation.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or out of date, email dan@mnbuddynetwork.com. The rule text controls; citations are included so anything on this site can be checked against it.