Montana high court rules for workers in comp cases

Montana’s Supreme Court recently ruled in two separate workers compensation cases that the employees were due insurance for injuries. On Thursday, a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with a Montana District Court ruling that Maril BeVan’s injuries sustained in May 2005 car crash should be covered by her employer, Blackfoot Telephone Communications in Missoula, Mont., as they occurred while she was on a paid 15-minute break.