Category: Firm News

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

As Kari Friedman waited in traffic on Valley Center Spur Road just outside of Bozeman on a cloudy April afternoon, you have to believe she was thinking about Jay Gill… Read more

Close to 100 rural Montanans are taking on one of the largest corporations in the world Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court… Read more

Judge Vince Chhabria announced that he is not inclined to supplant the role of juries and allow a “scientific panel” to decide whether Roundup causes cancer. This decision is critical to protecting the constitutional right to a jury trial. We have handled claims involving Roundup and other hazardous products and the importance of this decision…