COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai County's insurance company paid $315,000 to a deputy prosecutor who was fired and then rehired after suing the county for wrongful termination.

The Idaho Counties Risk Management Plan, or ICRMP, paid the settlement to Kenneth Stone in November 2013. A month later, county commissioners created a new, temporary full-time position for Stone in the prosecutor's office "for 11 pay periods."

Stone could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but his wife, attorney Saviraj Grewal, said neither she nor her husband would comment.

"The ICRMP settlement was confidential," Grewal said.

The settlement amount was released after The Press submitted a records request to ICRMP. Previously, the county refused to divulge the settlement amount.

Though Stone's wife said he is still employed by the county, Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh would not confirm that on Tuesday. A receptionist in McHugh's office said Stone "does not work in the office."

The county's human resources department would not release the most basic of information they are required to disclose under the Idaho Public Records Law, including whether or not Stone is still employed by the county, in what position and, if he is no longer employed, the date of his termination.

The county information desk has no listing for Kenneth Stone in the employee phone directory. His name is not on lists of prosecutor's office employees that have been distributed to private law offices and other county departments.

A listing for Stone in a directory of attorneys and court officials posted on the county website lists the address and phone number of his wife's law firm and a private email address.

He is listed on the website for his wife's firm under the heading of "Our Professionals" and described as having worked at the prosecutor's office through 2011.

Repeated attempts to confirm Stone's employment status with the county were denied and all requests for information referred to attorney Peter Erbland, who defended the county in Stone's suit. Erbland is on vacation until June.

Commissioner Todd Tondee said information about Stone's employment status is "protected information."

"It's in the (settlement) agreement that we can't talk about it," Tondee said.

After initially refusing to release any information, Tondee said Stone is currently employed by the county. After initially refusing to say where Stone was employed with the county, Tondee said he is working for the prosecuting attorney's office.

Tondee would not say whether Stone is physically working in the office or whether he is on paid administrative leave.

Stone - who is in his 70s - claimed he was wrongfully fired in March 2011 because of his age and because he refused a psychosexual examination.

Months earlier, fellow deputy prosecuting attorney Jim Reierson had "accused Stone of unwanted shoulder touching," according to Stone's federal claim against the county.

Stone's suit said psychosexual evaluations are reserved for heinous sexual predators.

The lawsuit also claimed that Stone planned to retire in August 2011, but in October 2010 changed his mind.

Stone alleged that the prosecutor's office "began building a pretext for (his) termination" because he wanted to work beyond retirement age.