John Morrison (born 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as the elected Montana State Auditor and Insurance and Securities Commissioner from 2001 to 2009.
He is the senior partner at Morrison Sherwood Wilson Deola, a public interest law firm based in Helena, Montana.
[4] Insure Montana won national awards,[5] and became a model for the premium assistance provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
[10] Through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Morrison led passage of a similar model law that has been adopted in more than a dozen states, including New York, California, Michigan, Illinois, and Texas.
[24][25] Morrison was co-counsel for the Plaintiff in Tanya Gersh v. Andrew Anglin, a nationally publicized case involving anti-Semitic attacks against a Jewish Montana woman and her family.
[26] The case resulted in the first legal ruling that the First Amendment does not protect troll storm perpetrators from civil liability and a $14 million award against the owner of the Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.
[38] Morrison was the founding president of the National Alliance of State Health CO-OPs (NASHCO), which included all Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans authorized and funded under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[43] In 2015 Morrison testified[44] before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about shutdowns of CO-OPs in various state healthcare exchanges; he said that the situation was the fault of both the Obama administration and Congress, but largely due to the decision of both to pay only 13 percent of the risk corridor payments required by the ACA.
Morrison initially polled ahead of incumbent Republican Conrad Burns,[50] and was leading in the primary race, but it narrowed to a "deadlock" a week prior to the election.
According to the Missoula Independent, the woman involved, years later, married the principal of companies investigated by the state auditors office while Morrison was there.