Workers' Compensation Court - James Jeremiah Shea, Judge

The Court rules are procedural in nature and are applied uniformly to all cases regardless of the date of injury unless specifically otherwise provided. The Court's Rule Committee annually reviews and, when necessary, revises the rules of the Court.

Rules Committee Photos

• 24.5.101 Organizational Rule

Sub-Chapter 2 reserved
Sub-Chapter 3
Procedural Rules
• 24.5.301 Petition for Trial
• 24.5.302 Response to Petition
• 24.5.303 Service and Computation of Time
• 24.5.304 Alternative Pleading (repealed)
• 24.5.305 Nature of Rules
• 24.5.306 Brevity in Pleadings and Form of Paper Presented For Filing
• 24.5.307 Third-Party Practice
• 24.5.307A Joinder and Service of Alleged Uninsured Employers
• 24.5.308 Joining Third Parties
• 24.5.309 Intervention
• 24.5.310 Time and Place of Trial Generally
• 24.5.311 Emergency Trials
• 24.5.312 Setting Time and Place of Trial by Stipulation or in Best Interests of Court (repealed)
• 24.5.313 Recusal
• 24.5.314 Adjudication of Interim Benefit Claims Under 39-71-610, MCA
• 24.5.315 reserved
• 24.5.316 Motions
• 24.5.317 Medical Records
• 24.5.318 Pretrial Conference and Order
• 24.5.319 through 24.5.321 reserved
• 24.5.322 Depositions
• 24.5.323 Interrogatories
• 24.5.324 Request for Production
• 24.5.325 Limiting Discovery
• 24.5.326 Failure to Make Discovery--Sanction
• 24.5.327 Default
• 24.5.328 reserved
• 24.5.329 Summary Judgment
• 24.5.330 Vacating and Resetting Trial
• 24.5.331 Subpoena
• 24.5.332 Conduct of Trial
• 24.5.333 Informal Disposition
• 24.5.334 Settlement Conference
• 24.5.335 Bench Rulings
• 24.5.336 Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Briefs
• 24.5.337 Motion for Reconsideration
• 24.5.338 through 24.5.339 reserved
• 24.5.340 Masters and Examiners--Procedure--Recommendations for Bench Orders
• 24.5.341 reserved
• 24.5.342 Taxation of Costs
• 24.5.343 Attorney Fees
• 24.5.344 Petition for New Trial and/or Request For Amendment to Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
• 24.5.345 Writ of Execution
• 24.5.346 Stay of Judgment Pending Appeal
• 24.5.347 reserved
• 24.5.348 Certification of Decisions, Appeals to Supreme Court
• 24.5.349 Rules Compliance
• 24.5.350 Appeals to Workers' Compensation Court Under Title 39, Chapters 71 and 72
• 24.5.351 Declaratory Rulings
• 24.5.352 Reference to Montana Rules of Civil Procedure
• 24.5.353 through 24.5.358 reserved
• 24.5.359 Notice of Representation (repealed)
• 24.5.360 Review