Montana Law Week

The Weekly Digest of Montana Law

Archives for January 2025

Settlements

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Plan I

Sjanet D’Hooge, lumbar spine, catching a patient while working as an x-ray technician, Flathead Co., Logan Health accepted claim, commenced indemnity & medical, MMI attained, FCE evaluations performed, impairment assessed, disputes as to relationship of current complaints to job injury and any wage loss, $56,368.80 new money for all claims, stipulated judgment; Sjanet D’Hooge, pro se, Geoffrey Keller for Logan Health [Read more…]

Statute of limitations, MVA passenger fibromyalgia

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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS properly held to bar passenger’s claims against former husband/driver of accident vehicle over assertion that fibromyalgia was self-concealing or driver was estopped from defending based on Montana statute because he had agreed to North Dakota’s 6-year statute… Knisely affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]

Air quality permit, natural gas power plant

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AIR QUALITY PERMIT: DEQ did not conduct adequate environmental review of natural gas power plant before issuing permit, should have considered greenhouse gas, analysis of lighting impacts deficient, but rather than vacatur of permit remanded for further evaluation of environmental impacts… Moses affirmed, reversed. [Read more…]

Deliberate homicide, alternative accountability theory

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DELIBERATE HOMICIDE: State’s alternative theory of accountability by phantom shooter submitted to jury without sufficient evidence… verdict form did not allow jury to declare guilt or innocence regarding each of the charged offenses or theories of liability… errors not harmless, reversed and remanded for new trial… Christopher reversed. [Read more…]