Best Read Montana Headlines
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#1 Montana Brokerage Owner Admits to Defrauding Customers
Sep 18 2023 // Kileen Moria Hagadone, 57, owner of Rosebud County Insurance Inc., pleaded guilty to wire fraud and to aggravated identity theft. Hagadone faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, $250,000 fine and three years of supervised...
#2 23 State Attorney Generals Concerned About Insurer Climate Commitments
May 18 2023 // Nearly two dozen GOP Attorney General offices sent a letter to the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance seeking documents and information over “legal concerns brought about by commitments to collaborate with other insurers in...
#3 Montana Superfund Town’s Clinic Accused of Submitting False Asbestos Claims
Jun 30 2023 // A major U.S. railroad found liable for spreading hazardous asbestos that killed hundreds of people in a Montana town is trying to convince a federal jury that a local clinic submitted hundreds of asbestos claims for people...
#4 Cleanup Begins After Asphalt Binder Spill into Montana’s Yellowstone River
Jul 6 2023 // Globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment could be seen on islands and riverbanks downstream from Yellowstone National Park a week after the...
#5 Montana Clinic Files for Bankruptcy After $6M False Asbestos Claims Ruling
Aug 15 2023 // A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination has filed for bankruptcy protection after a judge ordered it to pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages for submitting...
#6 Climate Change Can Cause U.S. Households ‘Significant Financial Strain’
Oct 5 2023 // Households can experience significant financial strain through pressures to income and expenses due to climate hazards, a report from the U.S. Department of Treasury shows. The report, The Impact of Climate Change on...
#7 Montana Youth Climate Activists Get Historic Win in State Case
Aug 14 2023 // A state judge ruled Monday that Montana’s oil and gas policies are infringing on young people’s constitutional rights to a safe environment, handing a big win to youth climate plaintiffs that will likely...
#8 Jury Rules BNSF Contributed to 2 Deaths in Montana Town Exposed to Asbestos
Apr 25 2024 // A federal jury said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened. The jury...
#9 Montana Brokerage Owner Admits to Defrauding Customers
Aug 28 2023 // Kileen Moria Hagadone, 57, owner of Rosebud County Insurance Inc., pleaded guilty to wire fraud and to aggravated identity theft. Hagadone faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, $250,000 fine and three years of supervised...
#10 Neglect Has Hastened Patient Deaths at Montana Psychiatric Hospital, Lawsuit Says
Nov 3 2023 // Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity and respect, which combined with a pattern of understaffing, lack of training and neglect...
#11 Youth Lawsuit Challenging Montana’s Pro-Fossil Fuel Policies Heading to Trial
May 15 2023 // A Montana judge said a climate change lawsuit from young people challenging the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies will proceed to trial despite efforts by the state to derail the case. The upcoming trial in Helena...
#12 Montana Governor Signs Reform Package Aimed at Lowering Insurance Costs
May 12 2023 // Montana Governor Greg Gianforte approved three legal reform measures intended to provide consumer protections and disclosures and reduce frivolous lawsuits with the ultimate goal of lowering costs and increasing the...
#13 Push to Lower Wildfire Risk Across West Stumbles in Places
Jun 28 2023 // Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees...
#14 Deck Collapse at Montana Country Club Leaves 30-Plus Injured During Popular Golf Tournament
Jul 24 2023 // More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a Montana country club during a weekend golf tournament, police and city officials said. The second-story patio floor of Billings` Briarwood Country Club broke and...
#15 Worker Dies at Montana Platinum and Palladium Mine, Triggering Temporary Mining Halt
Nov 15 2023 // A contract worker has died in a machinery accident at an underground precious metals mine in south-central Montana and work has temporarily stopped while the death is investigated, mine officials said. The worker was...
#16 More Funding for U.S.-Based Provider of Retained Climate Risk Reinsurance
Aug 17 2023 // Demex Group raised $5 million from a syndicate of existing and new investors the company says will address accumulating losses caused by secondary perils. The managing general agent, which “operates at the...
#17 BNSF Says It Didn’t Know About Asbestos That’s Killed Hundreds in Montana Town
Apr 23 2024 // BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal...
#18 Judge in Montana Case Says Fire Retardant Drops Polluting Streams But Allows Use to Continue
May 30 2023 // A judge ruled that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law. Halting the use of the red...
#19 Montana Asbestos Victims Want Buffett’s Railroad Company Held Responsible
Apr 18 2024 // An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer argued this week for a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border where thousands of people were...
#20 Train Derailment in Northern Montana Spills Freight
Jul 24 2023 // A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left 25 cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but caused no injuries. The accident comes less than a month after a railroad bridge collapse in...
