AVIATION
- Pilot error and manufacturing defects on Embraer aircraft operated by Comair ($6 million).
- Defective jet engine causing multiple deaths; evidence spoliation ($8.9 million from multiple defendants).

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
- Breach of fiduciary obligations and contract regarding an eye clinic ($1.1 million)
- Breach of stock contract and fiduciary duties ($1.2 million).
- Failure to adequately fund business and wrongful termination of credit ($1.5 million).
- Improper termination of operating line of credit.
- Violation of corporation borrowing regulations.
- Violation of SEC rules regarding secondary stock offer disclosures ($15 million).

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE
- Failure to properly advise patient of latex surgery ($1 million).
- Breach of standards regarding spinal fusion surgery and technique.
- Failure to monitor coagulation problems after prostate surgery.
- Failure to properly monitor patient during spinal anesthesia.
- Failure to properly treat glaucoma.
- Failure to properly treat ER patient with infectious respiratory illness.
- Failure to properly treat retinal detachment.
- Failure to timely diagnose breast cancer.
- Failure to timely diagnose colon cancer.
- Failure to timely diagnose prostate cancer.
- Failure to treat post-operative complications following cataract surgery.
- Injury to optic nerve during surgery; failure to properly treat macular degeneration.
- Injury from misplaced screw during spinal fusion.
- Medical negligence resulting in injury to vagus nerve.
- Negligent package and ship human tissue to pathology center ($2.2 million).
- Negligent treatment post-CT myelogram complications.
- Negligent treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and catheter insertion.
- Spinal surgery where wrong discs were removed.

NEGLIGENCE / INJURIES
- Failure to properly operate van ($1 million).
- Failure to properly operate tractor trailer; uninsured motorist; ($1.85 million).
- Negligence in truck versus motorcycle ($1.25 million)
- Negligence in gas pipeline swabbing project causing catastrophic burns ($2 million).
- Motor vehicle crashes (multiple).
- Improper supervision of trenching project leading to death ($4.3 million)
- Traumatic brain injury (multiple).

PRODUCTS LIABILITY
- Failure of onboard trailer weigh-scale system resulting in multiple deaths ($3.6 million).
- Failure to warn and manufacturing defects of latex products ($1 million).
- Defective aircraft engine resulting in multiple deaths; spoliation of evidence ($8.9 million).
- Defective auto parts.
- Defective highway due to improper super-elevation on curve.
- Exploding x-ray machine.
- Injuries resulting from tainted surgical supplies.
- Park-to-reverse gear defect.

WORKERS COMPENSATION
- Multiple workers' compensation and personal injury claims.
- Failure to provide safe place to work (Montana Safety and Scaffolding Act).

* Due to settlement confidentiality clauses, more detailed descriptions cannot be made.

SUPREME COURT CASES:

In re: Montana Power Company (1979) 180 Mont. 385, 590 P.2d 1140: Ruling establishing law that original cost depreciation is to be used in rate base calculation, not fair value.

State Bank of Townsend v. Maryann's (1982) 204 Mont. 21, 664 P.2d 295: Ruling permitting use of financial projections to establish damages.

State ex rel. Dep't. of Public Service Regulation v. Montana Irrigators (1984) 209 Mont. 375, 680 P.2d 963: Ruling establishing basic concepts for use in ratemaking.

Montana Power Company v. Montana Public Service Commission (1984) 214 Mont. 82, 692 P.2d 432: Ruling establishing Public Service Commision's use of discretion in setting utility rates.

Kimes v. Herrin (1985) 217 Mont. 330, 705 P.2d 108: Ruling requiring exclusion of evidence when its probative value outweighed by prejudice.

State Fund v. Chapman (1994) 267 Mont. 484, 885 P.2d 407: Ruling that Workers' Compensation Court could not set aside its own judgment entered more than two years earlier.

Dagel v. Farmers Insurance Group (1995) 273 Mont. 402, 903 P.2d 1359: Ruling permitting pursuit of underinsurnace proceeds without exhausting underlying policy limits.

Bueling v. Swift 1998 MT 112: Ruling preventing multiple defendants from each having four peremptory challenges unless hostility is established.

Harding v. Deiss 2000 MT 169: Ruling that comparative negligence is not an appropriate defense in medical negligence case.

McCauley v. Thompson-Nistler 2000 MT 215: Ruling regarding evidence necessary to establish public prescriptive easement.

Dyess v. Meagher County 2003 MT 78: Ruling stating EMT trainee was not an employee for purposes of determining workers' compensation exclusivity.

Edie v. Gray 2005 MT 224: Ruling stating that a tenant need not give a landlord notice of unsafe conditions and that failure to provide fit and habitable living space is violative of the Montana Residential Landlord Tenant Act as a matter of law.