Category: Firm News

Key Takeaways: The two deadliest ten-mile road stretches in Montana are both located on I-90, with one near Missoula and the other near Bozeman. Each recorded 7 fatal crashes and 8 fatalities over a five-year period. I-90 accounts for eight of the nine deadliest road segments in the state. I-15 accounts for one. Nearly two-thirds…

Beck, Amsden & Stalpes is honored to support the Range of Motion Project (ROMP) in its work to expand access to prosthetic care worldwide. Through a sponsorship in honor of Bozeman’s Bri Daniels—an adaptive ski instructor with Eagle Mount and an amputee herself—ROMP will help send Bri to Ecuador, where she will climb Cotopaxi, one…

Bozeman, Montana – Trucking Safety & Medical Examiner Negligence Our client stopped to help a stranded semi on a winter night. Minutes later, a chain-reaction crash caused life-changing injuries. The Bozeman personal injury lawyers at Beck, Amsden & Stalpes, PLLC proved that a certified medical examiner should never have cleared the truck driver to be…

Beck, Amsden & Stalpes, PLLC represents the Stevenson family of Miles City, Montana, owners of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Homes, in a significant lawsuit against Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, former insurance broker Joshoa Gardner, and several affiliated financial entities. The family alleges they were misled into purchasing high-risk financial products that caused substantial financial…

Montana is a booming, busy state. The state’s flourishing agriculture, forestry, mining, and manufacturing industries cause Montana’s highways and rural routes to be commonly congested with large commercial trucks. A fully loaded semi-tractor-trailer truck can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds, far outsizing an average 4,000-pound family car. Dump trucks, garbage trucks, and box trucks…

Bozeman, Montana – On April 10, 2024, a Montana jury returned a $15 million verdict against Rainbow Ranch Lodge and other defendants in a carbon monoxide poisoning case involving in the tragic death of Lew Hudgens. The record-setting verdict was more than double the existing largest verdict in Gallatin County, Montana. In January 2021, Lew…

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A wastewater worker who took a 30-foot fall into raw sewage on Bozeman property is suing, claiming the city failed to provide a safe place to work… Read more

The weather’s changing, roads are getting slicker and so now is a good time to take a look at your auto insurance coverage. Liability auto insurance covers costs when you cause an accident, but it doesn’t protect you from other drivers. Between medical costs and lost wages, if you are hit by another driver, there…

Most, if not all, health insurers have some contractual arrangement, such as a preferred provider agreement (PPA), with health care providers. These contractual arrangements require that the health insurer receive a discount when they pay a bill on behalf of their insured. These arrangements exist because health insurers are excellent repeat customers with substantial bargaining…

Over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a disproportionately large number of paid malpractice claims. Read more