$15,000,000
Wrongful Death
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Death Case - a $15 million verdict against Rainbow Ranch Lodge and other defendants in a carbon monoxide poisoning case involving in the tragic death.
$15,500,000
Catastrophic Injury
Birth Injury - Our firm represented the family of a child who suffered a severe injury at birth because of medical negligence and the medical providers’ failure to ensure appropriate precautions were taken during the birthing process. The case settled during trial.
$1,800,000
Catastrophic Injury
Burn Injury - Woman suffered burns over 17% of her body after a defective product exploded.
$800,000
Catastrophic Injury
Auto Accident Injury - Woman from north-central Montana injured when she was rear-ended at highway speeds by a drunk driver.
$8,200,000
Catastrophic Injury
Fatal Car Crash - The jury returned a verdict, including punitive damages, against Les Schwab and others after re-tread tires were placed on the front axle of a heavy duty truck, causing the death of two innocent victims on the road.
$6,950,000
Minority Shareholder Litigation
Montana Hospitals Litigation - In the Montana Hospitals litigation, we represented employees of five Montana hospitals. The hospitals made a secret deal with a health insurer to charge above market employee health coverage prices in return for a $26 million cash payment split among the hospitals. The Hospitals agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to resolve the case.
$6,950,000
Minority Shareholder Litigation
Montana Hospitals Litigation - In the Montana Hospitals litigation, we represented employees of five Montana hospitals. The hospitals made a secret deal with a health insurer to charge above market employee health coverage prices in return for a $26 million cash payment split among the hospitals. The Hospitals agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to resolve the case.
Confidential Settlement
Minority Shareholder Litigation
Yellowstone Club World (YCW)) was a membership club headquartered in Big Sky, Montana, which promised its members full access to resort properties around the world, along with use of various yachts and private jets. We alleged that YCW’s owners diverted assets belonging to the club and its members for their own personal use and for use by their various other business entities. YCW was ultimately placed into involuntary bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of financial repercussions for entangled people, business entities, and properties around the world. For years afterward, in ongoing efforts to compensate innocent creditors, the various estates pursued recoveries in multiple jurisdictions. Our firm represented the chapter 7 trustee for the YCW Estate in pursuing successful recoveries of multi-million-dollar resort properties around the world, which could then be sold to generate funds to compensate club members and other legitimate creditors.
Confidential Settlement
Minority Shareholder Litigation
Yellowstone Club World (YCW)) was a membership club headquartered in Big Sky, Montana, which promised its members full access to resort properties around the world, along with use of various yachts and private jets. We alleged that YCW’s owners diverted assets belonging to the club and its members for their own personal use and for use by their various other business entities. YCW was ultimately placed into involuntary bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of financial repercussions for entangled people, business entities, and properties around the world. For years afterward, in ongoing efforts to compensate innocent creditors, the various estates pursued recoveries in multiple jurisdictions. Our firm represented the chapter 7 trustee for the YCW Estate in pursuing successful recoveries of multi-million-dollar resort properties around the world, which could then be sold to generate funds to compensate club members and other legitimate creditors.
$1,300,000
Minority Shareholder Litigation
Deceptive Business Practices - Our firm represented buyers of a business who had been provided with incomplete information regarding the indebtedness of the company which led to the loss of $1,000,000 in capital contributions.
Confidential Settlement
Deceptive Business Practices
Tidyman's Employee ESOP - In the Tidyman's cases, our clients were Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) participants whose retirement accounts were wiped out after corporate management made self-interested decisions to hold onto company stock when an opportunity to sell existed. Management elevated their own interests in continuing in their lucrative executive positions over and above the interests of the employee shareholders. After securing settlements from the corporate misfeasors, the firm successfully represented the employees in pursuing insurance coverage from the insured defendants and liability carrier. This case involved litigation at the trial court level in four distinct actions in state and federal court across two states, as well as three separate appeals to the Ninth Circuit and Montana Supreme Court.
Confidential Settlement
Deceptive Business Practices
Tidyman's Employee ESOP - In the Tidyman's cases, our clients were Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) participants whose retirement accounts were wiped out after corporate management made self-interested decisions to hold onto company stock when an opportunity to sell existed. Management elevated their own interests in continuing in their lucrative executive positions over and above the interests of the employee shareholders. After securing settlements from the corporate misfeasors, the firm successfully represented the employees in pursuing insurance coverage from the insured defendants and liability carrier. This case involved litigation at the trial court level in four distinct actions in state and federal court across two states, as well as three separate appeals to the Ninth Circuit and Montana Supreme Court.
$4,030,000
Insurance
Employees v. Hilton Garden Inn Entities - Wage and hour class-action settlement after Hilton Garden Inn entities improperly withheld service fees from employees.
$6,950,000
Insurance
Montana Hospitals Litigation - In the Montana Hospitals litigation, we represented employees of five Montana hospitals. The hospitals made a secret deal with a health insurer to charge above market employee health coverage prices in return for a $26 million cash payment split among the hospitals. The Hospitals agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to resolve the case.
$6,950,000
Insurance
Montana Hospitals Litigation - In the Montana Hospitals litigation, we represented employees of five Montana hospitals. The hospitals made a secret deal with a health insurer to charge above market employee health coverage prices in return for a $26 million cash payment split among the hospitals. The Hospitals agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to resolve the case.
$400,000
Insurance
Insurance Dispute - Insurance dispute regarding whether our client was working at the time he was injured in a motor vehicle accident.
$137,500
Insurance Dispute
Insurance Dispute - Insurance company refused to pay life insurance benefits owed.
$3,300,000
Defective/Dangerous Products
Pharmaceutical Injuries - Administration of a defective pharmaceutical caused significant injuries.
$1,800,000
Defective/Dangerous Products
Burn Injury - Woman suffered burns over 17% of her body after a defective product exploded.
$120,000
Defective/Dangerous Products
Defective roofing materials caused damage to a home.
$2,000,000
Defective/Dangerous Products
Defective product caused significant facial injuries.
$15,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning . Man from Alabama died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on his honeymoon in Big Sky, Montana.
$1,200,000
Medical Malpractice
Medical negligence caused patient to die from respiratory failure shortly after being discharged from the hospital after a tonsillectomy.
$3,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Partial paralysis following surgery - Medical negligence caused client to developed a spinal cord hematoma.
$301,700
Medical Malpractice
Faulty medical implant - Failed orthopedic device resulting caused injury and required revision surgeries.
$3,270,000
Auto Accidents
Ochsenbein v. Temp Right Service Inc. - Jury verdict against Temp Right Services Inc. and its employee after the Temp Right Services Inc.'s commercial van driver made an unsafe left turn into a passing motorcyclist and severely injured the motorcyclist.
$1,200,000
Auto Accidents
Fatal car crash - A semi-truck driver making an improper pass killed a man and severely injured his son.
$800,000
Auto Accidents
Woman from north-central Montana injured when she was rear-ended at highway speeds by a drunk driver.
$225,600
Auto Accidents
Pedestrian struck in a cross walk.
$2,400,000
Jobsite Injuries
Workplace injury case where a storage tank ruptured under pressure and injured our client.
$1,200,000
Jobsite Injuries
Fatal work injury - Oil worker killed by machinery.
Confidential Settlement
Pollution
Christian v. ARCO - Represented landowners who sought to have arsenic and other mining contaminants cleaned from their land. This case was successfully argued before the Montana Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
$233,000
Pollution
Contaminated drinking water - Improper use of road salt contaminated our clients’ and others drinking water. Recovery included remediation to stop the contamination.