Hoyt & Blewett PLLC
About the firm
Founded in 1985 by John C. Hoyt and Alexander (Zander) Blewett III, Hoyt & Blewett PLLC is a Great Falls-based personal injury firm representing injured Montanans against insurance companies and corporate defendants. The firm has obtained more than 18 jury verdicts exceeding $1 million, including the largest reported individual personal injury settlement in Montana history.
Notable results
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.
Steve Seltzer, a Western art authenticator sued for his expert opinion on a painting's true authorship, won an $11.25 million jury verdict for malicious prosecution after Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher pursued him on behalf of a collector who could not find a single expert to support his position.
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.
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.
