Montana Settlements

• $43 Million Settlement Approved for Libby Asbestos Victims (Sep-22-11)
• Family of Surgeon Killed in Bicycle Crash Awarded $13 Million (Jun-13-11)
• Family Awarded $1.5 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit (Feb-23-11)
• Disabled Mother Bias Montana to pay $330,000 settlement in discrimination lawsuit. (May-12-08)
• Power Plant Pollution Energy companies to pay $25 million settlement in environmental lawsuit. (May-6-08)
• Phone Bill Reduction Qwest agrees to $16 million settlement in overcharging lawsuit. (May-1-08)
• Toxic Time Bomb Energy companies to pay $37 million settlement in environmental lawsuit. (Apr-29-08)
• Property Values Montana to pay $700,000 settlement to land owners in water pollution lawsuit. (Mar-18-08)
• Record Settlement W.R. Grace to pay $250 million in asbestos lawsuit. (Mar-13-08)
• River Basin Atlantic Richfield Co. agrees to $187 million settlement towards superfund cleanup site. (Feb-9-08)
• Snowmobile Accident US Forest Service and Jamie Leinberger pay $10.2 million personal injury to famous snowmobiler Brian Musselman. (Feb-3-08)
• Wrongful Imprisonment and Conviction Man awarded $3.5 million after spending 15 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. (Jan-14-08)
• City Taxes Butte-Silver Bow County, MT agrees to pay IRS $228,760 in back taxes. (Jan-9-08)
• Mining Pit Bankruptcy judge orders Asarco to pay $8.6 million contaminated water settlement. (Jan-8-08)
• Stillwater Disclosures Stillwater Mining Company has agreed to pay $2.6 million to shareholders who filed a lawsuit challenging the accuracy of the company's public disclosures concerning financial results and ore reserves. (Dec-12-07)
• Psychiatrist Malpractice Constance Reynolds ordered to pay $800,000 malpractice and fraud settlement. (Nov-20-07)
• Hydroelectric Dam Land Avista Corp. pays state of Montana $4 million per year for renting land. (Oct-25-07)
• Soccer Coach Discrimination Female coach wins $50,000 gender bias settlement. (Oct-19-07)
• Shelby Oil Back Taxes Company pays $1.8 million settlement to US government. (Sep-27-07)
• Billings, MT $250,000 settlement in defamation and harassment lawsuit. (May-18-07)
• Farm Service Agency $1 billion compensation in Indian civil rights racial discrimination lawsuit. (May-15-07)
• Yellowstone County, MT Wrongful death of jail inmate costs county $35,000. (Apr-26-07)
• Miles City, MT Police chief gets $135,000 settlement in gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit. (Apr-25-07)
• Atlantic Richfield Co. $215 million settlement for restoration damage claims. (Feb-18-07)
• Miles City Mayor Butch Grenz $20,000 in gender discrimination lawsuit. (Jan-25-07)
• Gallatin County $145,000 wrongful discharge settlement awarded to a Human Resources Department employee. (Feb-21-06)