{"id":4587,"date":"2026-05-13T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/insurers-pdf-stunt-costs-75000-after-montana-managing-general-agent-loses-appeal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:53:59","slug":"insurers-pdf-stunt-costs-75000-after-montana-managing-general-agent-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/insurers-pdf-stunt-costs-75000-after-montana-managing-general-agent-loses-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurer&#8217;s PDF stunt costs $75,000 after Montana managing general agent loses appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{060500c6-81a3-42fc-b5bd-51d5427ef7ab}{178}\" paraid=\"480968460\">That conduct also drove the size of the fine. Victory argued on appeal that the commissioner should have stuck to the $5,000-per-violation figure in \u00a7 33-2-1605(1)(a), MCA, not reached for the $25,000 ceiling in \u00a7 33-1-317, MCA. Reading the two provisions together, the Supreme Court held the commissioner has authority to impose fines up to $25,000 for managing general agent breaches. The agency had pointed to a facially illegal contract,\u00a0willful\u00a0obstruction of the investigation, and misrepresentations to the hearing examiner. That was enough, the court said, to take the penalty out of arbitrary-and-capricious territory.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That conduct also drove the size of the fine. Victory argued on appeal that the commissioner should have stuck to the $5,000-per-violation figure in \u00a7 33-2-1605(1)(a), MCA, not reached for the $25,000 ceiling in \u00a7 33-1-317, MCA. Reading the two provisions together, the Supreme Court held the commissioner has authority to impose fines up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3414,1556,281,1262,374,3415,1026,3413,3411,3412],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-agent","tag-appeal","tag-costs","tag-general","tag-insurers","tag-loses","tag-managing","tag-montana","tag-pdf","tag-stunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}