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Montana Cancer Physician Surrenders Medical License Following Board’s Findings

February 15, 2026

The Board of Medical Examiners of State of Montana issued a Final Order on December 19, 2025 that stated: “The Board accepts the surrender of licensure and HEREBY REVOKES THOMAS WEINER’S MONTANA PHYSICIAN LICENSE. Weiner is permanently prohibited from practicing medicine in Montana and canno[...]

Montana Supreme Court Won’t Revive Medical Malpractice Case Filed Too Late

October 17, 2024

Mr. Phillips died on October 11, 2019, shortly after receiving medical attention from Dr. Anna Robbins at Logan Health f/k/a Kalispell Regional Healthcare. On April 22, 2021, Phillips submitted an application to the Montana Medical Legal Panel (MMLP) alleging medical malpractice against Dr. Robbins [...]

Montana Supreme Court Holds Claim Against Hospital Was For Medical Malpractice

August 19, 2022

Plaintiff Joshua Selensky (“Selensky”) visited Community Hospital of Anaconda (“CHA”) on January 25, 2017, to undergo a procedure performed by Dr. Jonathan Mercer (“Dr. Mercer”) to remove a cyst from his left testicle. Dr. Mercer was not an employee of CHA, but wa[...]

$310K Montana Wrongful Death Verdict Against Assisted Living Facility

March 29, 2022

On January 28, 2022, a federal jury in Billings, Montana reached a verdict against Canyon Creek Memory Care of Billings, an assisted living memory care facility, in the amount of $310,000, for the death of a 73-year-old man who died five days after being beaten by another patient. The decedent had b[...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Medical Negligence Led To Teenager’s Blindness

January 30, 2022

A Montana medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that Glacier Eye Clinic and Kalispell Regional Medical Center negligently failed to refer a teenager to a neurosurgeon over the period of one month when the now 18-year-old was suffering from increasing cerebral spinal fluid in his brain that was putting[...]

Montana Supreme Court Overturns Negligent Homicide Convictions Of Opioid-Prescribing Doctor

October 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of Montana (“Montana Supreme Court”), in a 4-3 decision filed on September 16, 2020, overturned the negligent homicide convictions of a former Montana doctor who was charged with distributing dangerous drugs outside the course of a professional practice to [...]

Montana Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Post-Tonsillectomy Stroke Case

September 9, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Montana (“Montana Supreme Court”) affirmed a Montana medical malpractice defense verdict in its August 13, 2019 memorandum opinion, stating “each party presented expert testimony regarding the standard of care. [The defendant’s] expert …[...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Suspended Gastroenterologist With Long History Of Personal Problems

August 19, 2019

A Montana couple have filed a multi-million-dollar Montana medical malpractice lawsuit against a former gastroenterologist whose Montana medical malpractice license was suspended in April 2019, with his consent, after the Montana Board of Medical Examiners found that he intentionally overdosed on Ju[...]

Montana Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Naturopathic Physician, Denies Punitive Damages

October 26, 2016

The Supreme Court of the State of Montana (“Montana Supreme Court”) published an opinion on October 11, 2016 in which it affirmed the Montana medical malpractice jury’s verdict for compensatory damages in favor of the plaintiff in a Montana medical malpractice case filed against a [...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Jury Rejects Wrongful Birth Claim

February 14, 2016

On February 11, 2016, after a nine-day trial, a Montana medical malpractice jury rejected the plaintiffs’ wrongful birth claim in which the Montana couple alleged that they would have terminated the pregnancy had they been offered a genetic test for cystic fibrosis that would have disclosed t[...]

Montana Supreme Court Sides With Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

July 6, 2014

In its decision filed on June 27, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Montana (“Montana Supreme Court”) decided the issue of whether the elements of the medical malpractice Plaintiff’s malpractice complaint were sufficiently presented before the Montana Medical Legal Panel ([...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death of 36-Year-Old

August 3, 2012

After a two-week trial during July, 2012, a Montana medical malpractice jury found that a local Butte, Montana hospital failed to timely diagnose the rare medical condition of a 36-year-old patient in 2006 that contributed to her death. The woman was suffering from TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic[...]

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