All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 27 2020 // IMA Financial Group has acquired HofgardBenefits, a Louisville, Colo.-based employee benefits agency. The acquisition augments IMA’s employee benefits business segment that’s focused on companies with less than...
Jul 20 2020 // Colorado workers’ comp insurer Pinnacol Assurance has added Ellen Golombek and Jesus Salazar to its board of directors, while farm and ranch representative Joseph A. Hoff will serve as board chair.Both Golombek and...
Jul 20 2020 // Colorado has filed a lawsuit against an e-cigarette manufacturer saying the company marketed products to children and downplayed health risks.The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court in early July says Juul Labs Inc....
Jul 17 2020 // A Colorado company agreed to a $7 million cleanup plan for Alaska’s only uranium mine, which has left radioactive waste in the Tongass National Forest.Newmont Corporation is expected to fill the former Ross-Adams...
Jul 15 2020 // CIA-Leavitt Insurance Agency has acquired Goetz Insurors in Fort Morgan, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Goetz Insurors provides insurance to north eastern Colorado and offers an equine insurance program...
Jul 9 2020 // Colorado has filed a lawsuit against an e-cigarette manufacturer saying the company marketed products to children and downplayed health risks.The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court this week says Juul Labs Inc....
Jul 6 2020 // The U.S. Forest Service shut down an extensive fire mitigation project after raising concerns about the number of trees being cut down and sold to a logging company in southwestern Colorado.The Durango & Silverton...
Jun 30 2020 // Two men were killed while working on a pipe extension project at a cheese plant in northern Colorado.Weld County Coroner Carl Blesch says 25-year-old Odaniz Javier Ortiz Quinones, of Greeley, and 47-year-old Joseph Jarvis...
Jun 17 2020 // Crest Insurance of Colorado has expanded from Denver, Colo., into Ft. Collins. Jason Jarvis, Mike Ball and Christina Radomski are moving to the Ft. Collins office from the Denver branch. Kristen Hopkins and Mario Medina...
Jun 17 2020 // A lightning-caused wildfire in southwestern Colorado that has led to the evacuation of more than two dozen homes has grown to about 4.2 square miles.The fire started Saturday and was burning on private and U.S. Bureau of...
Jun 10 2020 // Colorado lawmakers are putting thousands of jobs at risk with a proposal that would repeal Colorado’s Regional Home Office Insurance Premium Tax Credit, an insurer group is charging.HB20-1420 will have significant...
Jun 5 2020 // An insurance company representing a Colorado resort filed a lawsuit against the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad for damage costs associated with an extended wildfire.Purgatory Resort’s insurance...
May 29 2020 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association is taking issue with tentative plans by the Colorado Department of Insurance to halt the use of credit information in Colorado during the pandemic.A recent draft...
May 26 2020 // CREST Insurance Group of Colorado has added Lyal Stephen and Dylan Vallino to the fir in the new Ft. Collins location.Both will be producers in the employee benefits division. Lyal was previously a broker at PFS Insurance...
May 19 2020 // As if Southwest Colorado’s extreme drought wasn’t enough to raise concerns about a potentially destructive wildfire season, the added complications of the coronavirus have only fueled that anxiety.The COVID-19...
May 13 2020 // A Colorado restaurant that opened for full service on Mother’s Day in defiance of state rules banning sit-down dining was ordered to close Monday and had its license suspended indefinitely by health officials.A video...
May 6 2020 // America’s meat-processing plants are starting to reopen but not all workers are showing up. Some still fear they’ll get sick after coronavirus outbreaks shut more than a dozen facilities last month. Employees...
May 4 2020 // A United Airlines pilot whose charge of indecent exposure was dismissed sued the Denver, Colo. airport hotel where his arrest occurred.An attorney for Andrew Collins filed the lawsuit against The Westin Denver...
May 1 2020 // COVID-19 cases at a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado have more than doubled “in a number of days” and a sixth employee died of the virus, a union official said on Thursday, underscoring the risks of U.S. meat...
May 1 2020 // Pinnacol Assurance donated nearly $2 million to an array of funds that support businesses and workers in Colorado impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Through its philanthropic giving program, Pinnacol donated the following...