"If you have been harmed as the result of wrongdoing or negligence by another, let us help you. Beck & Amsden PLLC is known and respected throughout Montana as a law firm with the ability, integrity, and strength to represent your interests. We are committed to helping you because we are committed to making society safer and holding wrongdoers accountable for everyone’s benefit. Founded in 1982, the Beck Law Office has consistently expanded as a result of our dedicated efforts to help our clients face the system and win. Today, we are Beck & Amsden PLLC with four trial lawyers, a dedicated research attorney and top-notch paralegals and support staff dedicated to helping our clients achieve compensation for physical and financial injuries. We have gained a reputation for handling highly visible, tough cases that have resulted in better treatment for individuals under the law: - We restored millions of dollars in retirement benefits for hundreds of Montana retirees whose employer had wrongfully used their pension money for its own benefit. - We effected change in statewide hospital practices after an emergency room`s failure to give a $25 vaccination left a fifteen-year old boy dead. - We have forced corporate polluters of Montana property to compensate landowners for their losses through environmental litigation. - We obtained one of the largest jury awards in Montana history from a corporate tire manufacturer who refused to warn thousands of Montana customers that the retread tires the defendant was selling were not safe for all uses. - We have forced corporate defendants to provide information about other accidents and injuries caused by their products in product liability cases. - We won an appeal limiting a defendant`s ability to put on an ""empty chair defense,"" in which the defendant attempts to blame the plaintiff`s injuries on someone who is not there to defend himself and who will not compensate the plaintiff if found liable. - We won a ruling securing the right of Montana parents to be compensated for the loss of their adult children through the wrongful conduct of another. - We represented a rural Montanan who contracted HIV from an unscreened blood transfusion while visiting family in Oregon. The case garnered nationwide attention, with attorney Monte Beck appearing on programs such as the CBS News Show, NBC Dateline and the PBS Frontline series. - We have obtained wrongfully withheld insurance benefits and called the insurance companies to account for their conduct. If you`ve been the victim of pension fraud, pollution damage (environmental litigation), exposure to toxic substances, medical malpractice, hospital negligence, defective products (product liability), unsafe automobile features, an aviation crash, automobile accident or insurance bad faith, talk to our lawyers about how we can help. In all of our practice areas, the consultation is free and you will owe nothing unless we collect damages on your behalf."