INSURANCE: Vehicle owned by husband & wife in which wife injured while husband driving within “insured auto” exception [Read more…]
Retaliation, town clerk, $145,7639, Council conduct
RETALIATION: $145,739 wage loss/medicals/emotional distress due to handling of Council agenda item focusing on Town Clerk’s prior HR complaint and Councilman’s retaliatory comments, following Supreme Court remand… HRC. [Read more…]
Insurance, “insured auto” UIM exception
INSURANCE: Vehicle owned by husband & wife in which wife injured while husband driving within “insured auto” exception to “underinsured auto,” wife’s UIM claim following release of husband for $300,000 liability limits rejected… insurer not [Read more…]
Defense verdict, excessive force booking
VERDICT: Defense, excessive force booking, skull fracture during struggle, subsequent seizure & drowning.
An 11-1 Missoula jury found that Missoula Officer Andrew Roy was not negligent (no unreasonable force) in connection with his arrest of Courtney [Read more…]
False arrest/imprisonment/wrongful discharge
FALSE ARREST/IMPRISONMENT/WRONGFUL DISCHARGE: Venue change based on publicity/marijuana bias properly denied… actions in hiring drug agent not relevant to false arrest claim… post-arrest evidence relevant to discharge claim, jury instructed not to use it to determine false arrest… sufficient probable cause for drug sting arrest of [Read more…]