All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2006 // A Helena, Mont., insurance agent had his license suspended and was ordered to stop doing business in Montana after allegedly committing insurance fraud and deceptive and illegal sales practices, the state auditor’s...
Jun 19 2006 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison lost in the primary election to become the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat. Morrison placed second in five-person field, with 38,380 votes. The winner, State Senate President...
May 22 2006 // The Montana State Fund board of directors has decided to keep its headquarters and roughly 300 employees located in Helena.Miles City leaders asked the State Fund, which runs workers’ compensation insurance for the...
May 22 2006 // The Montana State Fund board of directors has decided to keep its headquarters and roughly 300 employees located in Helena.Miles City leaders asked the State Fund, which runs workers’ compensation insurance for the...
Apr 17 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47.As people migrate to the...
Apr 3 2006 // Multi-State Agencies IBA West (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington). Web site: www.iba west.com PIA West (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington). Phone: (888)...
Mar 20 2006 // As many as 15 percent of Montana vehicles lack required liability insurance, and current penalties against the owners don’t act as much of a deterrent, the state’s legislative auditors reported.Legislative...
Mar 14 2006 // Costs for insuring jockeys at Montana race tracks are going up, and some communities say the expense threatens their ability to continue holding races.Miles City, Mont., which hosts three days of horse racing, two of them...
Mar 8 2006 // As many as 15 percent of Montana vehicles lack required liability insurance, and current penalties against the owners don’t act as much of a deterrent, legislative auditors reported.The state Motor Vehicle Division...
Feb 20 2006 // A looming workers’ compensation court case could cost Montanans $100 million and force a roughly $160 million rate hike for business buying insurance from the Montana State Fund, the agency’s top official...
Feb 19 2006 // Workers’ comp court case could cost Montana fund $200 millionA looming workers’ compensation court case could cost Montanans $100 million and force a roughly $160 million rate hike for business buying insurance...
Feb 16 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Thursday called statements by the Montana Democratic Party about former Montana Governor and current AIA President Marc Racicot “outrageous, shameful attempts to make...
Feb 10 2006 // A looming workers’ compensation court case could cost Montana taxpayers $100 million and force a roughly $160 million rate hike for business buying insurance from the Montana State Fund, the agency’s top...
Feb 6 2006 // A jury has ruled that an international farm machinery company must pay a Broadwater County, Mont., rancher and his insurance company nearly $120,000 over a tractor that caught fire and burned nearly seven dozen acres of a...
Jan 23 2006 // Montana sealed a deal with the state’s largest health insurer Thursday to offer affordable group coverage to small businesses that enroll in a new insurance pool.The pool is part of a $13 million state program called...
Jan 2 2006 // A Montana judge recently ruled that insurers don’t have to pay lifetime benefits to injured workers who are permanently disabled on the job, according to the Billings Gazette.State Fund insures more than 20,000...
Dec 18 2005 // U.S. Risk Insurance Opens Irvine, San Diego OfficesU.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has opened a Irvine, Calif., office and a satellite office in San Diego. Scott T. Carroll has joined the company as vice president and...
Dec 4 2005 // Montana Auditor Adds Two Companies in Captive Insurance MarketMontana State Auditor John Morrison has announced the formation of two new Montana companies approved to provide insurance in the captive insurance market. The...
Dec 2 2005 // Now Montana and the Cayman Islands have something in common: Liberty Mutual Alternative Markets. Over the summer, Liberty Mutual gained approval to establish Liberty Mutual Management (Cayman) Ltd and authorization to...
Dec 1 2005 // A Montana-owned insurance agency for injured workers may need $69 million to pay all of its bills, according to a Montana State Fund executive.Outside insurance experts hired by the State Fund concluded earlier this year...