All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2018 // Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers he needs at Essential Energy Services Ltd. And he isn’t the only employer who’s...
Jan 29 2018 // Federal regulators have cited four employers, including the largest oil and gas producer in Colorado, for exposing employees to health and safety hazards in connection with a May 2017 explosion that killed one employee and...
Dec 29 2017 // In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the U.S. received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature: a...
Nov 30 2017 // It’s possible to know where in the country more homebuyers will be moving over the next 30 to 90 days, thanks to what’s called a “pre-mover” index.It turns out that the U.S. markets with the highest...
Nov 20 2017 // The Pinnacol Assurance board has approved a 2018 decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will average 7.4 percent for the insurer’s 57,000-plus Colorado policyholders.The decrease will become effective...
Nov 14 2017 // The earthen dam on the outskirts of Georgetown in Texas’ Williamson County certainly does not look flimsy.The Austin American-Statesman reports at 35 feet high and nearly a third of a mile long, it has done a...
Nov 13 2017 // The Pinnacol Assurance board has approved a 2018 decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will average 7.4 percent for the insurer’s 57,000-plus Colorado policyholders.The decrease will become effective...
Nov 3 2017 // A Massachusetts family still without power days after a violent wind and rain storm struck New England was taken to the hospital after carbon monoxide from an outside generator seeped into their home.Fire officials in...
Oct 26 2017 // A rash of earthquakes in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico between 2008 and 2010 was likely due to fluids pumped deep underground during oil and gas wastewater disposal, according to a study from Colorado...
Oct 25 2017 // Holmes Murphy has named Jim Holder vice president of employees benefits for the Colorado market. Holder was previously senior vice president for Cigna’s Mountain States Region. He was executive vice president in...
Oct 19 2017 // Colorado energy regulators are proposing tighter rules for shutting down oil and gas pipelines after a fatal explosion blamed on natural gas leaking from a line that was thought to be out of service but was still connected...
Oct 9 2017 // IMA Inc. has named Maria Terry vice president and healthcare practice leader. Terry has nearly 40 years of industry experience. She was most recently with Lockton Denver. Prior to Lockton, Terry worked for 21 years with...
Sep 28 2017 // In 2016, Colorado and Texas homeowners suffered the greatest percentage of catastrophic losses due to extreme weather and other perils, according to a study of home insurance trends.The six-year LexisNexis Risk Solutions...
Sep 18 2017 // A Colorado police officer indicted by a state grand jury was arrested on multiple felony counts for allegedly lying about his home and car being burglarized and collecting nearly $60,000 in fraudulent insurance claims.Silt...
Sep 13 2017 // The Buckner Co. has named Lance Butler senior vice president of Colorado. Butler will be responsible for managing the top line growth and development of Colorado. Butler has more than 25 years of experience in large...
Aug 30 2017 // A Colorado police officer indicted by a state grand jury was arrested on multiple felony counts for allegedly lying about his home and car being burglarized and collecting nearly $60,000 in fraudulent insurance claims.The...
Aug 29 2017 // Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is working – and can work better with federal collaboration, the state’s governor and Republican attorney general told U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a letter.Gov....
Aug 23 2017 // Colorado’s largest city is on the brink of licensing some of the nation’s first legal marijuana clubs.But Denver’s elaborate hurdles for potential weed-friendly coffee shops and gathering places may mean...
Aug 21 2017 // If it barks like a dog…A new Colorado law that enables people to sit up to three pets without needing a license looks pretty much like just another piece of the growing gig economy. People can sell their services...
Aug 14 2017 // The Schinnerer Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Broomfield, Colo.-based International Catastrophe Insurance Managers LLC from the Paraline Group. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017....