Ulrigg v. Jones

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• providing that liability may be established if the Montana state legislature expressly creates a cause of action by statute
• providing that liability may be established if the Montana state legislature expressly creates a cause of action by statute
• noting that a direct cause of action against an insurer “must be expressly sanctioned by the legislature and not merely inferentially deduced.”
• “[T]he long-established rule in Montana [is] that a direct action against an insurer does not lie until the liability of the insured has been established”
• Montana Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act “does not impose vicarious liability on a third party. Rather, the Act requires the owner of a motor vehicle to continuously provide liability insurance coverage for operation of the vehicle by the owner and any permissive user.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).