{"id":892533,"date":"2017-07-12T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=892533"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T20:02:27","slug":"calculating-actual-cash-value-part-26-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/calculating-actual-cash-value-part-26-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating Actual Cash Value, Part 26: Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Smith | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/2017\/07\/articles\/uncategorized\/calculating-actual-cash-value-part-26-montana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog<\/a> | July 5, 2017<\/p>\n<p>In Montana, a jury may consider all relevant evidence when determining the actual cash value of the property damaged or destroyed.<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Under the broad evidence rule, the trier of fact \u201cmay consider any evidence logically tending to the formation of a correct estimate of the value of the insured property at the time of the loss.\u201d<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Where a policy limits the insurer\u2019s liability to the actual cash value at the time of the loss, what constitutes actual cash value depends upon the nature of the property insured, its condition, and other circumstances existing at the time of loss.<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Depreciation because of age should be considered in determining the actual cash value of a building partially destroyed by fire.<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>However, although not expressly rejecting the use of depreciation based on the age of a building partially destroyed by fire in arriving at its sound value before the fire, the court in\u00a0<em>McIntosh v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company<\/em>,<sup>5<\/sup>\u00a0did not use a depreciation percentage in further determining the amount of liability of the defendant insurance companies. The record showed that the buildings had been insured under policies which provided \u201cagainst all direct loss or damage by fire. . .\u201d and also that the company \u201cshall not be liable beyond the actual cash value of the property at the time any loss or damage occurs, and the loss or damage shall be ascertained or estimated according to such actual cash value, with proper deduction for depreciation however caused, and shall in no event exceed what it would then cost the insured to repair or replace the same with material of like kind and quality.\u201d The insurance companies argued that where the buildings had depreciated 48%, the cost of repairing them using new materials should likewise be depreciated by the same percentage in fixing the amount of liability of the companies. The court held that under the state statute, Mont. Code Ann. \u00a7 33-24-101, where there was no valuation in the policy, the measure of indemnity in insurance against fire is the expense, at the time that the loss is payable, of replacing the thing lost or injured, in the condition in which it was at the time of injury, and that since no valuation of the property insured was included in any of the policies the statute was incorporated into them. The court reversed and remanded with directions to enter judgment against the insurance companies for an amount equal to the full cost of repairing the building using new materials where necessary to restore it to the condition it was in before the fire.<br \/>\n_________________<br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0<em>CQI, Inc. v. Mountain W. Farm Bureau Ins. Co.<\/em>, No. CV 08-134-BLG-CSO, 2010 WL 2943143, at *2 (D. Mont. July 21, 2010).<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0<em>Id.<\/em>,\u00a0<em>citing<\/em>\u00a0<em>Interstate Gourmet Coffee Roasters, Inc. v. Seaco Ins. Co.<\/em>, 59 Mass. App. Ct. 78, 794 N.E.2d 607, 611 (Mass. App. Ct. 2003).<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup>\u00a0<em>Century Corp. v. Phoenix of Hartford<\/em>, 157 Mont. 16, 482 P.2d 1020 (1971).<br \/>\n<sup>4<\/sup>\u00a0<em>Lee v. Providence Washington Ins. Co.<\/em>, 82 Mont. 264, 266 P. 640 (1928).<br \/>\n<sup>5<\/sup>\u00a0<em>McIntosh v Hartford Fire Ins. Co.<\/em>, 106 Mont. 434, 78 P.2d 82 (1938).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Smith | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | July 5, 2017 In Montana, a jury may consider all relevant evidence when determining the actual cash value of the property damaged or destroyed.1\u00a0Under the broad evidence rule, the trier of fact \u201cmay consider any evidence logically tending to the formation of a correct estimate of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/calculating-actual-cash-value-part-26-montana\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calculating Actual Cash Value, Part 26: Montana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9721],"tags":[6601,9895,9293,56],"class_list":["post-892533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance-claims","category-property-damage","tag-actual-cash-value","tag-advise-consult","tag-montana","tag-property-damage","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calculating Actual Cash Value, Part 26: Montana - Advise &amp; 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