About Jackie S. Shields
Jackie Shields was born and raised in Lewistown, Montana. In 1995 she received her Bachelor of Science degree with high honors, double majoring in psychology and sociology, from Montana State University Billings. In 1999 she earned her law degree from McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California.
Jackie was licensed and began practicing law in California before returning home to Montana in 2004. She has practiced law in Billings since 2004 and was licensed in Wyoming in 2005. She is a member of the Montana State Bar, the Wyoming State Bar, and the Yellowstone Area Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Edwards & Culver
These results are credited to Edwards & Culver. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
