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Colorado Campaigns Aim at Curbing Vehicle-Pedestrian Deaths

Jul 9 2018 // Twice in a week this month in unrelated collisions, cars barreled into pedestrians on East Colfax Avenue, in Aurora, Colorado, killing one man and seriously hurting another.And investigators say those two crashes are far...

New, Old Wildfires Rage Amid California Heat Wave

Jul 9 2018 // Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have forced evacuations of hundreds of...

Wildfire Destroys 100-Plus Colorado Homes, Other Blazes Burning in West

Jul 3 2018 // More than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains were destroyed by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of others across the parched U.S. West remained under evacuations Tuesday.A fire near Fort Garland, roughly 200 miles...

Sea Level Rise Puts $117.5B at Risk from Chronic Flooding

Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...

Colorado Hailstorm Carries $169M Insurance Price Tag

Jul 2 2018 // Thousands of Fountain and Colorado Springs, Colo., area residents were busy cleaning up and meeting with insurance adjusters after an unusual early morning June 13 storm pounded vehicles and roofs golf and baseball-sized...

Jury Awards $383M in Wrongful Death Suits Against Colorado Dialysis Provider

Jun 29 2018 // A federal jury in Denver, Colo. awarded $383.5 million to the families of three patients who died of cardiac arrest after treatments at clinics run by dialysis provider DaVita Inc.Attorneys for the families said the...

Fury of Hailstorms Battered Colorado, Insured Losses ‘Skyrocketing’

Jun 28 2018 // The hailstorms that hit Northern Colorado and the Denver-metro just over a week ago carried a $276.4 million insurance price tag. The storms followed a Southern Colorado hailstorm a week earlier that caused an estimated...

Colorado Hailstorm Carries $169M Insurance Price Tag

Jun 22 2018 // Thousands of Fountain and Colorado Springs, Colo. area residents have spent the past week cleaning up and meeting with insurance adjusters after an unusual early morning June 13 storm pounded vehicles and roofs golf and...

Sea Level Rise Puts $117.5B at Risk from Chronic Flooding

Jun 21 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...

Wife Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Colorado Rafting Company

Jun 20 2018 // The wife of a Maryland man who died during a rafting trip down the Roaring Fork River filed a lawsuit accusing a Colorado rafting company of negligence and fraud. The Aspen Times reports Allison Parker filed a lawsuit...

Oregon Marijuana Growers Turning to Hemp as CBD Extract Explodes

Jun 18 2018 // A glut of legal marijuana is driving Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet, one that doesn’t come with a...

12,000-Plus Claims Filed for Hail Damage in Colorado

Jun 18 2018 // Insurance companies say they have received more than 12,000 claims for damage to vehicles and houses in Colorado Springs, Colo. after the city’s worst hail storm in 20 years.The Colorado Springs Gazette reported the...

More Employers Adopting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy for Marijuana Use

Jun 18 2018 // FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs.Those employers and many others are...

OSHA Seeking $65K in Penalties in Colorado Envirotech Worker Death

Jun 18 2018 // Federal regulators are proposing nearly $65,000 in penalties for a Colorado company where a worker died after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning the inside of a rail car.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

New Wildfire Erupts Near Ski Resorts, Houses in Colorado

Jun 14 2018 // A wildfire erupted Tuesday in an area of Colorado known for its ski resorts, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,300 homes and marking the latest in a series of blazes that have ignited in the drought-stricken U.S....

Hailstorm Pounds Parts of Colorado Damaging Homes, Cars and Businesses

Jun 14 2018 // An unusual early morning hailstorm pounded parts of Colorado, including Southeast Colorado Springs, Fountain and Fort Carson, with golf and baseball-sized hail damaging homes, cars and businesses, according to the Rocky...

OSHA Seeking $65K in Penalties in Colorado Envirotech Worker Death

Jun 11 2018 // Federal regulators are proposing nearly $65,000 in penalties for a Colorado company where a worker died after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning the inside of a rail car.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

Supreme Court Says Colorado Erred in Gay Wedding Cake Case

Jun 4 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a finding that a Colorado baker illegally discriminated when he refused to make a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.The narrow ruling didn’t reach the broad free-speech and...

Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado Retooling Leadership

May 30 2018 // Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado is revamping its leadership structure.Mark Isakson, who had been senior vice president of operations, now becomes the company’s chief customer officer. He will serve as the senior...

Suit Charges Energy Company Cut Safety Budget Before Fatal Colorado Blast

May 14 2018 // A shareholder lawsuit alleges Anadarko Petroleum was focused on keeping oil and gas flowing from older wells, not fixing potential safety problems, in the months before a fatal house explosion in Colorado linked to an...