All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2012 // A Montana jury has found defects in a tire sold by the Ford Motor Company were a factor in a 2003 Ford Bronco crash in which a Cascade County suffered a brain injury and was paralyzed. The Great Falls Tribune reported...
Apr 27 2012 // The Montana Supreme Court did not immediately rule after hearing competing arguments from a Hutterite colony and the state on whether Montana’s requirement that employers carry workers’ compensation insurance...
Apr 25 2012 // Connecticut-based health insurance giant Cigna has won a three-year contract to administer the state of Montana’s employee health plan. Cigna and the state announced Monday that Cigna will take over plan management...
Apr 23 2012 // Republican candidates for governor said on April 19 at a forum that they would back key insurance industry legislation if elected, and largely held similar positions with each other on a variety of issues.Most of the GOP...
Apr 12 2012 // Cross and Blue Shield of Montana along with Blue Cross of Idaho are buying an Idaho company that provides health products and employee-benefit administration services and merging it with a similar Montana company.The...
Apr 11 2012 // A 90-year-old woman residing in an assisted-living facility in Billings has won a $34.2 million judgment against her Omaha, Neb.-based insurance company for suspending payments for her dementia care.Arlene Hull and her...
Apr 10 2012 // A former chief marketing officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana who says she was fired for reporting illegal actions by the company that had the potential to lead to higher insurance premiums has filed a lawsuit...
Apr 9 2012 // A Gallatin County jury has awarded over $1 million in damages to two couples who unknowingly purchased property on an active landslide at a private ski resort and golf community in southwestern Montana in 2005. Last...
Mar 27 2012 // A proposed cleanup of Montana air pollution would force three industrial plants to spend $90 million on measures to improve visibility in some of the nation’s prized public lands, including Yellowstone and Theodore...
Mar 12 2012 // Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to pay $1 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for managing the Superfund site at the former Black Eagle smelter.“It really allows us to have a special account to do...
Mar 5 2012 // A jury has awarded the former executive director of the Montana Board of Nursing $160,000 in a wrongful discharge lawsuit against the Montana Department of Labor and Industry.The Lewis and Clark County jury on Friday took...
Mar 5 2012 // Officials in Montana have finalized a $1.6 million settlement with Exxon Mobil over an oil pipeline break that spilled 1,500 barrels of crude into the scenic Yellowstone River. The agreement between the Texas-based company...
Feb 27 2012 // A Nebraska insurance company has filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana to recover $16 million that was used primarily to cover a sweeping financial settlement of asbestos-related claims from residents of the...
Feb 24 2012 // Five current or former members of the Lake County sheriff’s office in Montana have filed a lawsuit against the sheriff and others claiming they were retaliated against over efforts to expose corruption.The suit filed...
Feb 17 2012 // A passenger in a western Montana bus crash that left two people dead and 32 injured filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state court accusing Rimrock Stages Inc. and Greyhound Lines Inc. of negligence.The lawsuit was filed on behalf...
Feb 14 2012 // A Bozeman, Mont. nurse who was fired after serving as a surrogate mother for a patient has settled her wrongful discharge lawsuit with Billings Clinic. Anicee Acosta-Yearick worked for Bozeman OB/GYN, which is owned by...
Feb 10 2012 // Federal officials investigating a pipeline break that spilled 1,500 barrels of oil into a Montana river said Wednesday that few companies take river erosion and other risks into account when evaluating pipeline safety.In...
Feb 8 2012 // State regulators are examining a $1.5 million proposal by an Oregon insurer to take over a portion of Montana’s third-largest health insurance company as part of a government anti-trust settlement.Commissioner of...
Jan 19 2012 // A freight train with its whistle blowing derailed Tuesday in northeastern Montana after colliding with a semitrailer that had pulled across tracks at a private crossing between Bainville and Culbertson, a BNSF Railway...
Jan 17 2012 // Officials with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center say a weekend storm and falling temperatures have increased the avalanche danger on some slopes of the Bridger Range. Avalanche danger is considerable on...