The purpose of this chapter is to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of congress as expressed in Public Law 79-15 (the McCarran-Ferguson Act, 15 U.S.C. 1011 through 1015), which was approved March 9, 1945, by defining or providing for determination of all such practices in this state which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting the trade practices so defined or determined.
Mont. Code Ann. § 33-18-101
Purposes
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Greany v. Western Farm Bureau Life Insurance (1992)
Most recently applied in High Country Paving, Inc. v. United Fire & Casualty Company (September 2021)
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How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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