Latest Montana Headlines
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Montana Man Deliberately Crashes Into Insurance Office
Jun 3 2013 // Police in Missoula, Mont. say a man who rammed his sport utility vehicle into an insurance office three times in late May was apparently expressing his frustration with the insurance industry. Police say the driver rammed...
Baucus in Montana Eyes Summer Deal On Farm Bill
May 31 2013 // Montana farmers told U.S. Sen. Max Baucus that planned cuts to the farm bill could make the crop insurance safety net too expensive. Baucus held a round-table discussion with farmers and agricultural groups Wednesday. The...
Montana Workers File Lawsuits Against Medical Provider
May 28 2013 // Six lawsuits have been filed against Partnership Health Center in Missoula, Mont. by workers contending they were forced to work off the clock without pay, full-time workers being replaced with part-timers who don’t...
Montana Enacts Insurance Compact Legislation
May 20 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has made Montana the 43rd state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. Bullock’s state joined the IIPRC upon his signing of Senate Bill 28. The IIPRC is a...
Montana Man Deliberately Crashes Into Insurance Office
May 17 2013 // Police in Missoula, Mont. say a man who rammed his sport utility vehicle into an insurance office three times was apparently expressing his frustration with the insurance industry. Police say the driver rammed the building...
Montana Disaster Services Chief Of Staff Resigns
May 15 2013 // Paul Grimstad, the chief of staff for the embattled Montana Disaster and Emergency Services, submitted his resignation Monday, an agency spokesman said. Grimstad will leave the agency on June 30, said Maj. Tim Crowe of the...
Montana Woman Charged With DUI After Drunken Horse Ride
May 13 2013 // A Billings, Mont. woman has denied drunken driving for an arrest that happened shortly after police escorted her home when they found her riding a horse while intoxicated. The Billings Gazette reported 43-year-old Dawnalee...
Montana Man Wrongly Told He Had Terminal Brain Cancer
May 10 2013 // A federal judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston, Mont. man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live. U.S. District Judge...
Montana Enacts Insurance Compact Legislation
May 6 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has made Montana the 43rd state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. Bullock’s state joined the IIPRC upon his signing of Senate Bill 28. The IIPRC is a...
Montana State Fund Lowers Rates for 2014
May 3 2013 // Montana State Fund’s board of directors announced a six percent rate decrease for 2014. The decrease is effective July 1 this year. Since 2007 State Fund has lowered average rates to Montana businesses by 34.5...
Montana Governor Signs Law to Crack Down On Drunken Driving
May 1 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has signed into law a measure that will allow judges to look back 10 years to add penalties for multiple drunken-driving offenders. Attorney General Tim Fox says his bill sponsored by Republican...
Former Montana Power Workers Settle Lawsuit
Apr 23 2013 // A class-action lawsuit between former workers at Montana Power Co. and the defunct utility has been settled for $1.2 million. The Montana Standard reported that last week Montana Power through a liability insurer agreed to...
EPA Blamed For Delays in Asbestos Study In Montana
Apr 21 2013 // Internal investigators are faulting the Environmental Protection Agency for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos...
Montana Counties Say DES Requirements Overly Burdensome
Apr 11 2013 // The troubled agency responsible for preparing Montana for emergencies has been beset by lawsuits by former employees, claims of a dysfunctional work environment and now complaints that overly burdensome and shifting...
Taylor-Leavitt Insurance Names Munro in Montana
Apr 5 2013 // Billings, Mont.-based Taylor-Leavitt hired Josh Munro as an account executive. With over a decade of experience in account management and sales, Munro will focus on commercial insurance. Taylor-Leavitt is part of the...
Report: Montana Disaster &Emergency Services Dysfunctional, Divisive
Mar 27 2013 // The Montana agency that responds to natural disasters and emergencies is a dysfunctional, divisive workplace with a climate of fear and the perception of bullying by some managers, according to an internal report conducted...
Ex-Montana Workers Claim Hostility, Sex For Favors
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...
Montana Panel Considers Ending Unisex Insurance Rates
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...
Alcohol Discrimination Ruling Upheld In Montana Inmate’s Death
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...
Montana Asbestos Victims Object To Attorneys’ Fees
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...
