SETTLEMENT: $475,000, jail suicide… settlement by County’s insurer over County’s objection. [Read more…]
$.02 verdict, jail inmate due process claims
VERDICT: $.02 nominal damages for deprivation of due process by jailers failing to provide written statement of evidence or reasons for disciplinary action, $0 for 5 other due process claims, affirmed… DeSoto affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]
Premises liability, improvident ice slip/fall SJ
PREMISES LIABILITY: Fact issues preclude summary judgment as to senior facility ice slip & fall… Larson reversed (memorandum). [Read more…]
$22 million verdict, product liability, helicopter crash
VERDICT: $22 million product liability damages, $8 million offer of judgment for Estate of helicopter pilot killed in crash while fighting fire in Oregon. [Read more…]
Supervisory control, rulings would increase complexity
SUPERVISORY CONTROL based on claim that Vannatta’s rulings will increase complexity of inherently dangerous falling bundle of posts case denied… Order. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, wrongful death, wedding party guest
VERDICT: Defense, wrongful death, disputed provision of cocaine to wedding party guest who went missing and was found dead in a creek. [Read more…]
Insurance, residential construction policy insureds
INSURANCE: Because no named Defendant is an insured under residential construction policy involving convoluted business entities there is no coverage and insurer has no duty to defend against claim by trucker injured by falling bundle of posts… Vannatta. [Read more…]
Statute of limitations, MVA passenger fibromyalgia
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…]
$2,221,839 verdict, apartment building earthwork
VERDICT: $2,221,839, breach of subcontract by earthwork subcontractor resulting in demolition of apartment building due to movement from lack of soil compaction and foundation drainage. [Read more…]
Restrictive covenants, barriers to building
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS: Myriad claims stemming from challenge to barriers to building in subdivision properly dismissed… DeSoto/Morris affirmed (memorandum). [Read more…]
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