$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.

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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.

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$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.

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$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.

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$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.