Latest Montana Headlines
All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Montana Panel Hears Wrongful Birth, Life Bill
Mar 13 2013 // A Senate panel is considering a bill that would prohibit the parents of children with genetic abnormalities from suing their doctors for withholding that information from them before birth. House Bill 310 sponsored by...
Attorneys In Montana Asbestos Settlement Seek $4M In Fees
Feb 25 2013 // Attorneys for asbestos victims in a Montana mining town are seeking more than $4 million in fees and expenses out of a legal settlement with chemical company W.R. Grace that was intended to cover the victims’ ongoing...
Montana’s Wheat Crop Valued At $1.7B
Feb 22 2013 // Agricultural analysts say Montana’s 2012 wheat crop was valued at a record $1.7 billion, making it the fifth time in six years that the crop has been valued at over $1 billion. The Billings Gazette reported farmers...
Scientists Want Montana Climate Office Reopened To Help Farmers
Feb 19 2013 // State officials should approve and provide money to reopen a state climate office because new technologies could help crop producers track global competition as well as offer other advantages, scientists at the University...
Former BNSF Employee Awarded $1.7M in Montana lawsuit
Feb 17 2013 // A jury has awarded a former BNSF Railway Co. employee $1.7 million in damages in a civil lawsuit. The Great Falls Tribune reported jurors found BNSF negligently injured Robert Dannels’ spine by assigning him work...
Montana City Settles Excessive Force Lawsuit With Felon For $105K
Feb 15 2013 // The Montana city of Billings is paying a convicted felon $105,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed a former police officer used excessive force when he shot the man six times as he fled the scene of a robbery in...
Scientists Back EPA on Montana Asbestos Risks
Feb 11 2013 // Federal officials anticipate finishing by late 2014 a risk study to guide the cleanup of an asbestos-contaminated Montana mining town, after a panel of scientists backed draft results that say even a minuscule amount of...
Montana Captives on the Rise
Jan 16 2013 // The Montana Captive Insurance Association Inc. reported 34 new captive insurance company licenses were issued in the state during the past year, bringing the total number of licensed captives in the domicile to 114. The...
2013 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 14 2013 // JANUARY P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org 2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa,...
Montana Court: Hutterites Must Pay Workers’ Compensation
Jan 14 2013 // A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. The 4-3 decision...
Montana Doctor Sues for $22M Over Loss Of Hospital Privileges
Jan 10 2013 // A physician is seeking $22 million in damages after Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City, Mont. revoked his medical staff privileges in December 2009. The Miles City Star reported Dr. J. Randall Rauh is suing for breach of...
Montana Court: Hutterites Must Pay Workers’ Compensation
Jan 2 2013 // A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. Monday’s 4-3...
Northern Montana Insurance Services Expand Operations
Dec 28 2012 // Northern Montana Insurance Services, a Leavitt Group affiliate, has expanded operations with new offices in Helena and Butte. Jay LeProwse and Pam King have joined the agency and will work in the Butte office. Shawn Kraft...
Montana Lawmakers Want Pipeline Study Finished
Dec 26 2012 // Two U.S. senators from Montana are urging federal safety regulators to wrap up a yearlong study into whether oil spills into rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the U.S. have resulted from inadequately buried...
Montana Company Accused of Workplace Safety Hazards
Dec 26 2012 // Federal safety regulators have proposed $75,600 in penalties for a Montana manufacturing company over alleged workplace hazards. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Fiberglass Structures, Inc. of Laurel...
$100K Deal Reached in Montana Over Lead-Contaminated Waste
Dec 10 2012 // The owner of a central Montana landfill has agreed to pay the U.S. government $100,000 to settle a civil action over 1,600 tons of earth containing unsafe levels of lead that sat untreated and unprotected for about four...
Jury Awards Montana Company $28.4M in Software Lawsuit
Dec 10 2012 // A federal court jury has awarded a Missoula company $28.4 million in a lawsuit against a national bus company over the licensing of software that helps school districts more efficiently plan and run bus routes. Education...
Mediation In Montana Church Abuse Lawsuits Set For April
Dec 6 2012 // Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, a Montana order of nuns and hundreds of alleged sex-abuse victims said this week they will try to hammer out a settlement during a mediation conference in April,...
Missoula County Wants Montana Mill Site On Superfund List
Dec 3 2012 // Missoula County commissioners have sent a letter to Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer asking him to support putting the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. mill site in Frenchtown on the Superfund National Priorities...
NAIC Elects 2013 Officers; Louisiana’s Donelon Elected President
Dec 3 2012 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has elected its 2013 officers: President: Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon President-Elect: North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam...
