VERDICT: Defense, no contribution from MDT, construction company, engineering company, signage company in $1,046,189 settlement by truck owner with pregnant woman rear-ended in construction zone. [Read more…]
The Weekly Digest of Montana Law
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VERDICT: Defense, no contribution from MDT, construction company, engineering company, signage company in $1,046,189 settlement by truck owner with pregnant woman rear-ended in construction zone. [Read more…]
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VERDICT: Defense, wrongful discharge, newspaper sales rep, refusal to use mileage accounting GPS unit. [Read more…]
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SSD: ALJ failed to make specific findings warranting rejecting claim of debilitating headaches, failed to credit mental limitations per physician’s opinion… remanded for benefits… [Read more…]
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SENTENCING: 121 months for abusive sexual contact substantively reasonable… Cebull affirmed (unpublished). [Read more…]
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SETTLEMENT: Complex 4-party deal including $2,091,000 payment by resort buyer, alleged fraudulent transfers, resort development divorce dispute… $697,000 fees to Ch. 7 [Read more…]
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OD caused by non-ergonomic workspace, based on treating chiropractor’s opinion… Shea. [Read more…]
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Plan I
Gayle Old Chief, low back, 2/08, $31,000, Tom Murphy
Daryl Tillman, shoulder(s), 3/08, $18,000, David Sandler [Read more…]
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INSURANCE BAD FAITH: Objective, reasonable person standard adopted for determining whether liability “reasonably clear” in underlying case… jury should have been instructed to determine whether one would have found for [Read more…]
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MARITAL: Wife’s contributions to business were loan and gift, wife not entitled to share in husband’s interest… ambiguous pre-nup drafted by wife’s attorney construed against her, despite pre-nup provision against such construction… loan [Read more…]
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MARITAL: No jurisdiction in divorce proceeding over claim that inheritance from wife’s father belongs to son… Baugh affirmed (IOR I-3(d)(v)). [Read more…]