All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison has been named chair of the Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Morrison will lead the committee’s oversight of...
Mar 6 2008 // Homeland Security officials are pushing recalcitrant states to adopt stricter driver’s license standards to end a standoff that could disrupt domestic air travel.States have less than a month to send a letter to the...
Mar 6 2008 // A federal judge has upheld a ruling by State Insurance Commissioner John Morrison prohibiting “discretionary clauses” in group health and disability insurance policies in Montana.The ruling by U.S. District...
Feb 1 2008 // The Montana Captive Insurance Association Inc. appointed Steve Matthews as captive insurance coordinator for the Montana State Auditor’s (SAO) office. Matthews will also retain his duties as the SAO’s chief...
Jan 13 2008 // The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two employees in recent workers’ compensation decisions, saying they are due insurance for injuries received while on break and at a company party.In one case, a woman...
Jan 13 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison is reminding property and casualty insurers doing business in the state that a new law recently went into effect to protect Montanans’ right to choose an auto body repair shop...
Jan 8 2008 // Hub International Ltd. announced that Hub International Transportation Insurance Services Inc. (HUB Transportation) has acquired all of the assets of Billings, Mont.-based Lenhardt Insurance Agency Inc., an insurance...
Jan 4 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison is reminding all licensed property and casualty insurers doing business in the state that a new law recently went into effect to protect Montanans’ right to choose an auto body...
Dec 21 2007 // The Montana state auditor is reminding auto insurance companies that consumers can choose any shop they want for repair estimates.John Morrison says a law that took effect earlier this year bans a practice known as...
Dec 11 2007 // Montana farmers who bought state hail insurance this year will receive a refund of 10 percent of the premiums they paid.The state Board of Hail Insurance approved the refunds after reviewing an actuarial report at its...
Dec 2 2007 // Anaconda Police Chief John Sullivan, left, points out damage to the Washington School to Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, in Anaconda, Mont. (AP Photo/The Montana Standard, Lisa...
Nov 27 2007 // An insurance provider for the city of Billings, Mont., will appeal a verdict that awarded $1.3 million to a police officer who said he suffered retaliation for reporting the mishandling of illegal drugs within the...
Nov 19 2007 // A district judge has approved an $800,000 settlement in a malpractice and fraud lawsuit filed by a Billings, Mont., woman against her deceased daughter’s psychologist.Judge Susan Watters said the settlement amount...
Nov 19 2007 // Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer toured the damage caused in Anaconda last week by strong winds that uprooted trees, downed power lines and blew the roof off an old school building.“When you have a community that pulls...
Oct 24 2007 // The board that oversees a subsidized health-insurance plan for nearly 800 small businesses in Montana indicated it will try to hold down premium increases by cutting plan benefits.Jim Edwards, a member of the Insure...
Oct 22 2007 // Small businesses with state-subsidized health insurance through the Insure Montana program face double-digit race increases next year, officials said.Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, the company that sells and...
Sep 28 2007 // A Montana District Court jury has awarded a former BNSF Railway employee more than $1 million for a neck injury he suffered while working.Paul Roney, 61, of Shelby, said he sustained a severe neck injury on April 25, 2002,...
Sep 24 2007 // Montana legislative analysts agreed that more money is needed to fight fires in Montana but called the state’s current system for funding wildfire suppression “convoluted” and raised concerns about some...
Sep 24 2007 // Montana legislative analysts agreed that more money is needed to fight fires in Montana but called the state’s current system for funding wildfire suppression “convoluted” and raised concerns about some...
Sep 19 2007 // The North Dakota family of a 7-month-old boy killed in a rollover two years ago says a defective child safety seat caused the child to be ejected from the vehicle.Relatives of Isaac Eslinger are suing Ohio-based infant...