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animal control report

People often confuse an animal control report with a police report, but they are not the same thing. A police report usually focuses on possible crimes, public disturbance, or...

The restaurant insurer keeps hiding behind a bad police report - here's the game

A nurse slipped on a spill at a Great Falls restaurant, the report blames her, her case feels dead, and she needs to know if changing lawyers will blow everything up.

ARTICLE by Brenda Kowalski

Feeling guilty about suing the delivery company won't pay for a missed brain injury

A commercial van crash in Helena can look minor at first, then turn into a missed brain injury case while the company's electronic data is quietly aging out.

ARTICLE by Sunita Patel

fleeing and eluding

Did a driver ignore police lights or a siren and keep going? That is generally what fleeing and eluding means: willfully failing to stop, or trying to escape, after a law...

leaving the scene of an accident

Failing to stop, stay, and give required help or information after a crash. "Stop" means pulling over as close as safely possible. "Stay" means remaining there until the basic...

failure to stop for emergency vehicle

Not pulling over and stopping when an emergency vehicle is coming with lights or siren activated. "Failure" means a driver did not do what the law required in time. "Stop"...

running a red light

You might see this listed on a traffic ticket, crash report, insurance letter, or hear an officer say a driver "failed to stop for a steady red signal." That means a driver...

speeding ticket

What trips people up most is that a speeding ticket is not just a bill you pay and forget. It is a traffic citation accusing a driver of going faster than the posted limit or...

improper lane change

A driver can be ticketed, blamed for a crash, or left fighting an injury claim within hours if this rule is misunderstood. An improper lane change happens when someone moves...

failure to yield right of way

A driver fails to yield the right of way by not letting another vehicle, pedestrian, bicycle, or lawful road user go first when traffic rules require it. That usually happens...

careless driving

People often mix up careless driving and reckless driving, but they are not the same. Careless driving usually means operating a vehicle without enough attention, caution, or...

Why the insurer in Missoula keeps pushing you to talk fast

A Missoula crash made an old back problem worse, and now the insurer's calls, social media snooping, and quick money pressure are all aimed at shrinking the claim before the full damage is clear.

ARTICLE by Hank Sorensen

running a stop sign

What trips people up most is that a driver does not have to blow through an intersection at full speed to get cited. Rolling past the white line, failing to stop before a...

strict liability dog bite

Think of it like a tool that fails on the job the first time it's used: the person responsible may still be on the hook even if nobody warned them beforehand. That is the basic...

distracted driving citation

A ticket for distracted driving can cost money right away, but the bigger hit may come later through fines, points, insurance increases, and damage to an injury claim after a...

Eight months later, that quick dog-bite payout in Great Falls still looks like a trap

A fast dog-bite settlement can leave a Great Falls parent paying back the hospital, Medicaid, or a health insurer before much money ever reaches the kids' rent and groceries.

ARTICLE by Brenda Kowalski

Just left St. Peter's after a Helena commute crash and now the state says my bad disc was already there

A Helena commuter dealing with panic, back pain, and a government claim gets hit with the oldest insurance move in the book: your disc problem was "already there."

ARTICLE by Dan Overturf

failure to signal

You'll usually see this phrased in a ticket, crash report, insurance letter, or a comment like, "The other driver was cited for failure to signal." It means a driver did not...

Missoula claim went dark while your husband's concussion kept wrecking his work

A rear-end crash left a Missoula welder with lasting concussion symptoms, and now the insurer is dragging it out by going silent.

ARTICLE by Dan Overturf

I let the insurer record my statement after my kid's Billings dog bite, ruin case?

In Montana, a child dog-bite case with facial scarring often lands in the mid-five figures, and more serious permanent-injury cases can reach six figures. So no, a recorded...