All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2020 // Coloradans like residents of other states have seen an increase in delivery vehicles as many households shifted to ordering more online amid the pandemice.Colorado workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance...
Dec 1 2020 // The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as...
Nov 24 2020 // Stephen Bass approached Andy Sovick last year with a plan for writing a guide to snowmobile-access skiing around one of the most popular backcountry destinations in Colorado: Buffalo Pass near Steamboat Springs.Bass, a ski...
Nov 24 2020 // A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter, potentially beating a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a...
Nov 24 2020 // Lakewood, Colo.-based Eberl Claims Service has named Phillip Morris vice president of sales. Morris has more than 14 years of sales, marketing, claims-handling and insurance-industry experience. Previous workplaces include...
Nov 20 2020 // A new wave of mobile apps that help track exposure to the coronavirus is coming to U.S. states ahead of the holidays as public health officials bet that recently introduced features from Apple Inc. and Alphabet...
Oct 14 2020 // The summer drought that lingered throughout Colorado has become worse.The entire state is currently experiencing abnormally dry conditions and nearly 17% of the land area is in exceptional drought, the most extreme...
Sep 28 2020 // Crest Insurance LLC of Denver, Colo., has promoted Jason VanGotten to assistant commercial lines manager. His prior experience includes ownership of a home inspection company, and a producer for Colorado Restaurant...
Sep 23 2020 // Denver, Colo.-based CAC Specialty has named Matt Movafaghi a senior vice president in its tax insurance practice. Movafaghi was most recently a senior tax counsel for Chevron Corp., where he was responsible for...
Sep 15 2020 // A month-old northern Colorado wildfire has destroyed 25 residential buildings and a total of 54 structures, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office says.The fire near Red Feather Lakes has burned 160 square miles and was...
Sep 10 2020 // IMA Select has completed its acquisition of Phillip Gira Insurance Agency in Denver, Colo.’s Glendale/Cherry Creek area.Inga Phillip, who founded and served as CEO for Phillip Gira Insurance Agency for the past 35...
Sep 7 2020 // A Denver, Colo., judge awarded $40,000 to a woman after a man she dated sent a sexually-explicit video of her to her estranged husband.The woman’s attorney says it is the first trial victory under Colorado’s...
Sep 4 2020 // Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. has added Erick Mortenson as a consulting actuary in the Denver, Colo., area. Mortenson comes from Willis Towers Watson, where he was a senior vice president focused on providing analytics...
Sep 1 2020 // The Colorado State Forest Service has launched a wildland-urban interface risk index.The county-by-county index uses housing density combined with modeled fire behavior to determine where the greatest potential impact to...
Aug 31 2020 // A Denver, Colo., judge awarded $40,000 to a woman after a man she dated sent a sexually-explicit video of her to her estranged husband.The woman’s attorney says it is the first trial victory under Colorado’s...
Aug 19 2020 // Gov. Jared Polis issued a 30-day ban on open fires such as campfires, fireworks and other open sources of ignition on Tuesday as the state battles four separate wildfires.The ban does not include home barbecues, public...
Aug 10 2020 // Several residents near a western Colorado wildfire were ordered to evacuate as the blaze continues to expand. The fire about 18 miles north of Grand Junction was started more than a week ago by lightning in remote and...
Aug 10 2020 // A new report out examining how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S. cannabis industry shows consumer purchasing spiked, dropped, then started to stabilize in the time between when things began to unravel for the nation...
Aug 7 2020 // A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died when the car she was riding in drove off a Forest Service road and into an abandoned mine shaft in the...
Jul 29 2020 // A new report out examining how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S. cannabis industry shows consumer purchasing spiked, dropped, then started to stabilize in the time between when things began to unravel for the nation...