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WCF Insurance Names Wall Regional Vice President in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada

Apr 30 2020 // WCF Insurance has named Mark Wall regional vice president over Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. Wall will report to Kevin Peterson, senior vice president of sales and distribution, and will be responsible for collaborating...

Pilot Sues Colorado Hotel Over Dismissed Exposure Charge

Apr 28 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...

Georgia Gambles on Reopening Business Amid Pandemic

Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...

4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cannabis and Insurance

Apr 20 2020 // One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and insurance.Some good guesses from any insurance professional with their foot in the door of a dispensary,...

Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety

Apr 15 2020 // CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, according to a meat...

4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cannabis and Insurance

Apr 9 2020 // One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and insurance.Some good guesses from any insurance professional with their foot in the door of a dispensary,...

Forecaster Sees ‘Greater Than Average’ Hurricane Season This Year

Apr 6 2020 // The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season could see a greater than average number of major hurricanes because of warmer seas and favorable weather patterns, forecasters from Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorology...

Federal-State Pandemic Training Focused on Flu, Not New Virus

Apr 6 2020 // In August, months before the first case of the new coronavirus was documented, some of Colorado’s top health officials gathered in a room at the state Department of Public Health and Environment to train for a...

Federal Officials Sue Colorado’s Telluride Express for Age Discrimination

Apr 2 2020 // San Miguel Mountain Ventures LLC, which does business as Telluride Express in Montrose, Colo., has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for refusing to hire a job applicant because of his...

10 Nursing Homes in Colorado Have COVID-19 Outbreaks

Mar 31 2020 // The Colorado Department of Health has released the names and locations of nine of the 10 nursing homes and long-term care facilities that are facing outbreaks of COVID-19 in response to a public records request filed by...

CAC Specialty Adds Trinkleback and Goodier in Colorado

Mar 30 2020 // CAC Specialty has named Robert Trinkleback leader of property/casualty loss control, and Jonathan Goodier vice president and property/casualty claims advocate in Denver, Colo. Trinkleback will help clients improve...

Pinnacol Assurance Distributing $70M in Dividends to Colorado Companies

Mar 26 2020 // Pinnacol Assurance announced it is distributing general dividend checks to its customers totaling $70 million.This is the fifth straight year Colorado’s largest workers’ compensation provider has distributed...

Construction Contractor Getting $184M in Colorado Settlement

Mar 23 2020 // The Denver International Airport has settled a dispute for more than $180 million with a contracting company that was fired before completing a terminal renovation project.The airport filed an agreement Friday in a...

Alera Group Acquires Fall River Employee Benefits in Colorado

Mar 20 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Fall River Employee Benefits in Denver, Colo.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fall River joins Alera Group through Benefit Commerce Group, an Alera Group company. The Fall River team will...

Colorado Man And His Insurer to Pay $500K Over 2017 Wildfire

Mar 19 2020 // A Colorado man and his insurance company paid $500,000 to the U.S. government over a wildfire that burned federal land in the state.Dale Owns and Grange Insurance Association made the payment to resolve liability for the...

Passenger Reaction to Sneezing Person Caused Colorado Flight to Divert

Mar 11 2020 // A commercial flight from Colorado ski country to Newark, New Jersey made an unscheduled stop in Denver after several passengers became disruptive because they were seated next to someone who they thought was sick,...

Colorado Refinery to Pay $9M for Air Violations

Mar 9 2020 // The Canada-based owner-operator of a Denver, Colo.-area oil refinery will pay $9 million to settle air quality violations dating to 2017, state officials announced Friday.The settlement with Calgary-based Suncor Energy is...

Virtus Acquires First Line Insurance Services in Colorado

Mar 5 2020 // Virtus LLC and its subsidiary Virtus Rocky Mountain LLC have acquired Denver, Colo.-based insurance brokerage firm First Line Insurance Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. First Line’s focus has been on...

Report Shows Underestimated Weather Led to Colorado Wildfire

Mar 5 2020 // A controlled burn that became a wildfire in Colorado was the result of weather conditions that were underestimated by fire personnel, state officials said.The Colorado Department of Public Safety Compliance and...

Worldwide Facilities Names Foote Senior Vice President in Colorado

Mar 4 2020 // Worldwide Facilities has named Brad Foote a senior vice president. Foote will lead Worldwide Facilities’ new Denver, Colo. office. He has more than 14 years of experience in the wholesale insurance industry and...