HELENA, Mont. - A majority of the Montana Supreme Court on May 7 reversed a lower court's $1,188,399.45 attorney fee award against a commercial general liability insurer and an excess insurer in a coverage dispute arising from a teen suicide but affirmed the lower court's finding that the insurers breached their duty to defend and were liable for the underlying $3 million judgment (Judith Newman v. Scottsdale Insurance Company, et al., No. 12-0200, Mont. Sup.; 2013 Mont. LEXIS 146)....(read more)
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