About Triel D. Culver
Triel D. Culver has practiced law in Montana since 1993, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana since 1996, and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2000. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, he graduated from Helena High School in 1983, received his B.A. from Middlebury College in 1988, and earned his J.D. from the University of Montana in 1993.
Triel's practice spans personal injury, products liability, worksite accidents, bad faith insurance, consumer protection, and commercial litigation, among other areas. He previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. Maurice R. Colberg Jr. in Montana's 13th Judicial District and as a deputy Yellowstone County attorney.
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.
