Montana Law Week

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Probate, POD beneficiaries’ “creditor’s claim”

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PROBATE: Claim by decedent’s siblings for $100,371.75 POD funds properly allowed as creditor’s claim over challenge by estranged daughter… undue influence by neighbors, competing wills, right to jury, appointment of independent PR… 10% “legal rate” interest improperly awarded on creditor’s claim… Moses affirmed, reversed (IOR I-3(c)). [Read more…]

Settlements

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Plan I

Roy Houseman, 13 claims of various parts 2010-20, MSGIA contends — and Petitioner disputes — that Petitioner was placed at MMI for all accepted conditions and no further treatment is causally related, several claims are time-barred and/or closed by operation of law, Claimant was terminated for disciplinary reasons and approved to return to alternative employments so no past-due or ongoing wage loss is owed, $100,000 new money for all claims ($30,890 MSA to be self-administered despite MSGIA’s offer of professional administration, Petitioner agrees to hold MSGIA harmless for failing to fully fund or appropriately self-administer MSA), stipulated judgment; Thomas Murphy for Houseman, Morgan Weber for MSGIA [Read more…]