Montana Law Week

The Weekly Digest of Montana Law

Elections, HB 176, SB 169 injunction stay on appeal

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ELECTIONS: SOS’s request to stay preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of HB 176 and SB 169(2) granted… Moses reversed… order. [Read more…]

$6,952,065 settlements, hospital employees’ health plans

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SETTLEMENT: $6,952,065, action for accounting, disgorgement of profits, reimbursement of losses, on behalf of 11,000 employees with health benefit plans at 5 hospitals. [Read more…]

Insurance, med-pay advance absent explicit request

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INSURANCE: Insurer had no obligation under UTPA to advance-pay 3rd-party medical bills absent explicit request, demand, or claim, also had reasonable basis for not making advance payments… common law bad faith claim time-barred… DeSoto’s 56(a) ruling not precluded by Lynch’s prior 12(b)(6) ruling… DeSoto/Morris. [Read more…]

Insurance, duty to provide policy to 3rd-party claimant

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INSURANCE: Claim that insurer has duty to provide policy to 3rd-party claimant when insured’s liability is reasonably clear not rendered moot by insured providing the policy after suit filed… insurer failed to show inapplicability of voluntary cessation exception by showing its conduct will not recur… Rienne McElyea reversed. [Read more…]