About Connor Murphy
Connor Murphy is an attorney at Hoyt & Blewett PLLC who was inspired to pursue law by his maternal grandfather, a respected attorney in the Great Falls community. He brings over a decade of experience in state and federal courts, having previously been a partner at Taleff & Murphy, P.C., where he handled complex commercial litigation, insurance disputes, finance and banking litigation, real property issues, and estate disputes, including a number of jury trials. He now applies that broad experience to representing individuals and families injured by the negligence or intentional acts of others.
He was admitted to the Montana bar in 2011 and to the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in 2012. He is named to The Best Lawyers in America for 2026. Murphy is a past board member for United Way of Cascade County, the American Legion Baseball Club, and Electric City Baseball Academy.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hoyt & Blewett PLLC
These results are credited to Hoyt & Blewett PLLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Jeremy Vangsnes, a 21-year-old cross-country athlete who was left quadriplegic and brain-injured after a 2009 rollover on Interstate 90 near Belgrade, Montana, settled for $26 million against the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention after a judge ruled the driver was acting within the scope of his agency with the organization.
A Butte federal jury returned a $2.5 million verdict for the families of two women killed when a Patrol Helicopters fuel-truck driver failed to signal before turning on a Park County road, and the Ninth Circuit unanimously affirmed the award.
Allen Ginn, a log truck driver, was injured in July 2008 when logs fell on him at a Smurfit-Stone mill near Missoula. Smurfit-Stone defaulted on liability, and a Missoula County jury set damages at $3,470,899.56 for Ginn and $500,000 for his wife Laurie. The Montana Supreme Court affirmed in 2015, but a bankruptcy stipulation the Ginns had to accept to bring the suit capped their recovery at $2.5 million.
The Montana Supreme Court reversed a 50% contributory-negligence deduction and restored the full $969,797 jury verdict for the widow of welding supervisor Andre Woods, who was killed when a hy-rail vehicle traveled more than four miles past its authorized track warrant limits and collided with an oncoming train.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
