Edwards & Culver
Proven VerdictsAbout Edwards & Culver
Edwards & Culver is a Billings, Montana law firm handling personal injury, environmental, and commercial litigation cases in Montana state and federal courts. Founding attorney A. Clifford Edwards has been named Montana Trial Lawyer of the Year and has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America since 1987. The firm reports having won two of the four largest jury judgments in Montana history and more than $150 million recovered for clients.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Edwards & Culver
Ralph Hutt worked 18 months at W.R. Grace's asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mill in Libby, Montana in the late 1960s and developed asbestosis decades later. A Cascade County jury found the mill's workers' compensation insurer, Maryland Casualty Company, breached an independent duty to warn him about hazards it tracked through undisclosed chest X-rays, and awarded $36.5 million in February 2022. The trial judge completed Montana's mandatory review of the punitive portion in January 2023 and declined to reduce it, calling the insurer's conduct reprehensible. Maryland Casualty appealed, but the appeal ended in a confidential settlement in 2024, so the verdict itself, not any later court reduction, is what stood.
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