Ruhd v. Liberty Northwest Insurance Corporation

¶1 Appellants/Intervenors, Fisch, Frost, and Rausch, and their respective counsel, Mr. Monte Beck, Mr. Stephen Roberts, and Mr. Lon Dale, appeal a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court (WCC) that the attorneys’ fees common fund created via the litigation entitled Rausch v. State Compensation Insurance Fund, 2002 MT 203, 311 Mont. 210, 54 P.3d 25, was limited solely to claimants insured by the State Fund. The Workers’ Compensation Court bifurcated the issue of common fund attorneys’ fees from the other issues in the case and certified it for appeal.

¶2 We state the issues on appeal as…