Latest Montana Headlines

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NorthWestern Energy’s Insurer Settles Over Montana Explosion

Apr 21 2010 // NorthWestern Energy’s insurance company will pay the city of Bozeman, Montana about $163,000 for costs incurred in the aftermath of a deadly natural gas explosion downtown.City commissioners voted unanimously to...

Taylor New Co-Owner of Montana’s Taylor-Leavitt Insurance Agency

Apr 12 2010 // The Leavitt Group, headquartered in Cedar City, Utah, has announced that Mike Taylor is the new co-owner of the company’s Montana locations in Billings, Bozeman, and Livingston. Previously known as Swanson-Leavitt...

Montana Gets Break From Levee Mandate

Apr 7 2010 // U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says federal officials have delayed for a year a plan to decertify levees in Great Falls, Mont., an action that could have spurred higher flood insurance rates. Across the country, the Federal...

Stricter Levee Regs Looming for Montana Communities

Mar 15 2010 // Representatives of riverside communities in Montana say looming federal requirements that they upgrade or certify local levee systems could overwhelm small town budgets.Homeowners in areas that don’t meet the...

Montana 100-Year Flood Plain Expanded

Feb 23 2010 // The mayor of Miles City, Mont., said a new federal map nearly doubles the size of the city’s 100-year flood plain and could result in hundreds of residents paying for increased flood insurance.Joe R. Whalen said the...

Montana Deputy Auditor’s Accuser Returns to Work

Jan 28 2010 // The Montana state auditor’s office has reached a settlement with an employee who left the office last year after accusing Deputy Auditor Walt Schweitzer of illegally soliciting political contributions from...

Montana Court Upholds Notice Rule in Lawsuits Against Bars

Jan 7 2010 // A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires someone planning to sue a bar over liability in a drunken driving crash to notify the bar within 180 days of the crash.The Supreme Court issued...

Montana Makes Morgan Stanley Pay Back $42 Million

Dec 16 2009 // Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, Monica Lindeen, finalized a settlement with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. regarding allegations the company misled investors.In the agreement, Morgan Stanley has agreed...

Montana Hail Board Approves Refunds

Dec 10 2009 // Montana farmers who bought state hail insurance this year will receive a refund of 40 percent of the premiums they paid. The state Board of Hail Insurance approved the refunds after reviewing an actuarial report at its...

Flagstone Re Buys Retrocessional Coverage from Montana Re Cat Bond

Dec 2 2009 // Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Limited announced that Flagstone Réassurance Suisse SA, has purchased three years of fully collateralized retrocessional coverage from Montana Re Ltd. a special purpose reinsurer...

Foremost Insurance Expands Dwelling Fire Program in 3 States

Dec 1 2009 // Foremost Insurance Group announced it is expanding its dwelling fire program in Montana, Nebraska and Tennessee, effective Dec. 1, 2009.Typically known as the solution for hard-to-place landlord and owner-occupied...

Montana Councilman Wants $2 Million Related to Asbestos Site

Nov 16 2009 // A city councilman in Libby, Mont., said Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency owes the asbestos-plagued Superfund community $2 million for the demolition of several contaminated buildings.The city-owned...

Montana Courts Uphold Workers’ Compensation Cutoff Age

Nov 15 2009 // The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off workers’ compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is of retirement...

Montana Courts Uphold Workers’ Comp Cutoff Age

Nov 5 2009 // The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off worker’s compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is of retirement...

Montana Commissioner Named to Federal Committee

Nov 2 2009 // Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica J. Lindeen has been appointed to the North American Securities Administrators Association’s (NASAA) Federal Legislation Committee, a key committee as Congress...

Montana Among States to Accuse FedEx of Misclassifying Drivers

Nov 1 2009 // Three states said they plan to sue FedEx Corp., accusing the second-largest U.S. package delivery company of violating labor laws by illegally classifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees to save...

Montana Insurance Commissioner Announces Fraud Settlement

Oct 30 2009 // LPL Financial Corporation (LPL) will pay nearly $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors and a fine of $150,000 to the State of Montana under a settlement announced today by Monica Lindeen, Montana Commissioner of...

Montana Man Charged with Arson Pleads

Oct 15 2009 // A Montana man charged with starting a string of fires that damaged a home and several vehicles in Billings has pleaded guilty to felony criminal endangerment.Sergio Nino, 22, entered the plea Tuesday as part of a deal...

Montana Ponzi Scheme Investigation Continues

Oct 6 2009 // The state and a court-appointed receiver continue to inventory the assets of two Polson men and their companies as they seek to recover money for those who invested in what the state calls a $14 million Ponzi scheme.Keith...

Montana Commissioner Stumps Against Fraud

Sep 25 2009 // Promises of high profits, low risks, and guaranteed returns may sound too good to resist to cash-strapped investors in a recovering economy, but Montanans struggling to avoid getting scammed don’t have to go it...