MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Claim that failure to wear mask during myelogram resulted in lethal infection dismissed because expert [Read more…]
Archives for October 2011
$150,611 verdict, T-bone pickups, knee/whiplash
VERDICT: $150,611.17/$10,760 ($134,416.73 net after advance), T-bone pickups, admitted liability, knee contusion, soft-tissue [Read more…]
$500,000 settlement, City Commission speaker
SETTLEMENT: $500,000, following ruling by Irigoin that citizen’s rights to assemble, speak, participate violated by City [Read more…]
Settlements
Plan I
Charles Retzloff, knee, 11/03, disputed medicals, $50,000, Kim Schulke [Read more…]
Eminent domain, access to landlocked property
EMINENT DOMAIN: Proof of existing residence required to create road from highway to landlocked property… existence/necessity generally jury questions, but Judge properly decided issue where undisputed that cabin not habitable… Sherlock affirmed (other grounds).
Ineffective assistance, child sex offenses
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE claims by child sex abuse Defendant properly rejected… Tucker affirmed. [Read more…]
Title insurance, preliminary commitment
TITLE INSURANCE: §33-25-214 search/examination requirements not applicable to preliminary title commitments, summary judgment for title companies on negligence per se… [Read more…]
Product liability, fall from loader bucket
PRODUCT LIABILITY: Plaintiff who fell from loader bucket is the only “user” under product liability law, whether supervisor or co-worker read or understood warnings against riding in bucket irrelevant… [Read more…]
VERDICT: Defense, triples semi rollover, injured co-driver, fractured ribs/soft-tissue neck/hematoma.
VERDICT: Defense, triples semi rollover, injured co-driver, fractured ribs/soft-tissue neck/hematoma.
A Billings jury found that FedEx Ground was not negligent in connection with injuries sustained by David Long in a semi rollover 5/11/07.
VERDICT: Defense, excessive force arrest.
VERDICT: Defense, excessive force arrest.
A Missoula jury found that Adam Jackson did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Missoula Officer Garth Craigen deprived him of his constitutional rights under the 4th Amendment 1/17/09, when he was arrested on traffic ticket warrants.