MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Defendant’s summary judgment motion improperly addressed (and granted) before Plaintiffs’ motion to amend to add claim for lack of informed consent as to alternatives to surgery for PTC based on neurosurgeon’s [Read more…]
The Weekly Digest of Montana Law
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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Defendant’s summary judgment motion improperly addressed (and granted) before Plaintiffs’ motion to amend to add claim for lack of informed consent as to alternatives to surgery for PTC based on neurosurgeon’s [Read more…]
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JUDGMENT EXEMPTIONS: “Moneys” in “household checking account” not exempt “goods,” $300 stimulus properly seized along with $75 overdraft charges resulting from seizure ($154 SSD funds improperly seized, returned after Justice Court [Read more…]
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COMP EXCLUSIVITY: Deliberate & intentional conduct may be inferred from allegations that employer knew employee was being harmed, failed to warn, intentionally continued to [Read more…]
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INSURANCE: Parents injured in their vehicle driven by daughter properly precluded from UIM from parents’ and daughters’ policies… exclusion not illusory because, while UIM unavailable for single-car crashes involving only insured’s [Read more…]
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PROBATE: §72-2-814(2)(a)(i) automatically revoked ex-wife’s pour-over living trust that had named former husband’s children as devisees… declaratory judgment proper without [Read more…]
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SUPERVISORY CONTROL of Fagg denied as to comparative fault of Plaintiff and non-party and CPA in school lacrosse stick blinding retrial… order. [Read more…]
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SUPERVISORY CONTROL of Macek denied as to whether commercial charge agreement subject to usury law… order. [Read more…]
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BANKRUPTCY: Debtor knowingly/fraudulently made many false oaths on Schedules/SOFA relating to material facts in complex scheme stemming from mega-house construction agreement… fraudulent transfer of other house properly [Read more…]
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FELA: Evidence of previous verdicts in which repetitive motion claims were rejected (without informing jury 1 million+ awarded on other claims) resulted in unfair trial, new trial [Read more…]