All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2013 // Former Montana Disaster and Emergency Services employees claim the division’s chief of staff traded sex for favoritism with a subordinate, and that those who complained were met with hostility and ultimately forced...
Mar 25 2013 // Supporters of a bill that would allow some insurance companies to consider sex when determining policy rates say the measure would put money back in the pockets of Montanans.House Bill 600 would still prohibit health...
Mar 22 2013 // A state hearings officer has upheld a ruling that Blaine and Hill counties showed discriminatory indifference toward an 18-year-old inmate in the Hill County Detention Center who died in 2009 of acute alcohol...
Mar 20 2013 // Some victims of asbestos exposure in northwestern Montana have asked a state judge to deny $4 million in fees and costs requested by attorneys in a legal settlement with chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace and Co.In letters...
Mar 13 2013 // A Senate panel is considering a bill that would prohibit the parents of children with genetic abnormalities from suing their doctors for withholding that information from them before birth.House Bill 310 sponsored by...
Feb 25 2013 // Attorneys for asbestos victims in a Montana mining town are seeking more than $4 million in fees and expenses out of a legal settlement with chemical company W.R. Grace that was intended to cover the victims’ ongoing...
Feb 22 2013 // Agricultural analysts say Montana’s 2012 wheat crop was valued at a record $1.7 billion, making it the fifth time in six years that the crop has been valued at over $1 billion. The Billings Gazette reported farmers...
Feb 19 2013 // State officials should approve and provide money to reopen a state climate office because new technologies could help crop producers track global competition as well as offer other advantages, scientists at the University...
Feb 17 2013 // A jury has awarded a former BNSF Railway Co. employee $1.7 million in damages in a civil lawsuit.The Great Falls Tribune reported jurors found BNSF negligently injured Robert Dannels’ spine by assigning him work that...
Feb 15 2013 // The Montana city of Billings is paying a convicted felon $105,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed a former police officer used excessive force when he shot the man six times as he fled the scene of a robbery in...
Feb 11 2013 // Federal officials anticipate finishing by late 2014 a risk study to guide the cleanup of an asbestos-contaminated Montana mining town, after a panel of scientists backed draft results that say even a minuscule amount of...
Jan 16 2013 // The Montana Captive Insurance Association Inc. reported 34 new captive insurance company licenses were issued in the state during the past year, bringing the total number of licensed captives in the domicile to 114.The...
Jan 14 2013 // P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Rancho...
Jan 14 2013 // A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion.The 4-3 decision...
Jan 10 2013 // A physician is seeking $22 million in damages after Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City, Mont. revoked his medical staff privileges in December 2009.The Miles City Star reported Dr. J. Randall Rauh is suing for breach of...
Jan 2 2013 // A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion.Monday’s 4-3...
Dec 28 2012 // Northern Montana Insurance Services, a Leavitt Group affiliate, has expanded operations with new offices in Helena and Butte. Jay LeProwse and Pam King have joined the agency and will work in the Butte office. Shawn Kraft...
Dec 26 2012 // Two U.S. senators from Montana are urging federal safety regulators to wrap up a yearlong study into whether oil spills into rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the U.S. have resulted from inadequately buried...
Dec 26 2012 // Federal safety regulators have proposed $75,600 in penalties for a Montana manufacturing company over alleged workplace hazards.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Fiberglass Structures, Inc. of Laurel...
Dec 10 2012 // The owner of a central Montana landfill has agreed to pay the U.S. government $100,000 to settle a civil action over 1,600 tons of earth containing unsafe levels of lead that sat untreated and unprotected for about four...