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Colorado Whitewater Outfitter Insurance Lowered

Oct 27 2014 // The amount of insurance required for whitewater boating outfitters at Dinosaur National Monument, Colo. has been lowered. The National Park Service raised alarms last year when it announced changes that included increasing...

Company Fined $1M in Double Fatality at Colorado Silver Mine

Oct 21 2014 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration imposed a roughly $1 million fine following an investigation into the deaths of two miners at Revenue Mine in Colorado on Nov. 17, 2013.The...

Colorado Resort Files Trademark Suit Over Salt Lake Ski Marketing

Oct 20 2014 // A Salt Lake City, Utah tourism group is defending its new marketing campaign, saying the Ski City slogan doesn’t violate a Colorado ski resort’s Ski Town trademark. Visit Salt Lake says in a statement that the...

Latest Colorado Hail Storm May Impact Insurance Industry Nationally

Oct 20 2014 // Colorado’s insurance industry is weighing its options after the latest hailstorm hit densely populated South Metro Denver — unusual for the Rockies in late September.What Coloradans might likely see down the...

RMIIA: Colorado Hailstorm Caused $213M in Insured Losses

Oct 15 2014 // Insurers say a hailstorm last month carried a hefty price tag. Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association spokeswoman Carole Walker said Monday the Sept. 29 storm pounded thousands of vehicles and roofs, causing an...

Colorado Resort Files Trademark Suit Over Salt Lake Ski Marketing

Oct 10 2014 // A Salt Lake City, Utah tourism group is defending its new marketing campaign, saying the Ski City slogan doesn’t violate a Colorado ski resort’s Ski Town trademark. Visit Salt Lake says in a statement that the...

People – West

Oct 6 2014 // Lockton has named Bob Irvin as president of its San Francisco office.Adam McDonough will continue in his role as executive vice president. Irvin has more than 10 years of experience providing property/casualty and employee...

Marijuana and Workers’ Compensation on Industry’s Watch List

Oct 3 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry. Upcoming stories will include reports on potential changes to federal laws, and regional reports on how medical...

Jury in Colorado Awards $2.5M In Hit-And-Run Case

Oct 1 2014 // A Denver jury has determined a 29-year-old Colorado man was at fault in a fatal hit-and-run crash and has awarded the victim’s family $2.5 million.The Denver Post reported the jury determined last week that Daniel...

Colorado Mother And Son Convicted Of Arson Insurance Scam

Oct 1 2014 // A Fort Collins, Colo. mother and son have been sentenced to prison for setting their home on fire with hopes of collecting an insurance payout. The Coloradoan reported that 53-year-old Kellie Lawson-Welborne and...

Marijuana Insurance Industry: How High Can It Go?

Oct 1 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry to appear on InsuranceJournal.com. Upcoming stories will include reports on how medical marijuana could affect the...

Appeal of Worker Fired For Medical Marijuana Being Heard by Colorado Court

Sep 30 2014 // The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether employees can be fired for using medical marijuana, which is legal in the state but illegal under federal law.The case was brought by Brandon Coats, a...

Flood and Peterson in Colorado Taps O’Neill to Head Employee Benefits

Sep 26 2014 // Brad O’Neill has been named to lead Colorado-based Flood and Peterson’s employee benefits department. O’Neill has more than 20 years of experience in the health and welfare industry. Prior to joining...

Lawsuit Against Vail Resorts Allowed by Colorado Judge

Sep 24 2014 // Vail Resorts could be required to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to the family of a teenager who died in an avalanche while skiing in Colorado January 2012.Broomfield County District Court Judge Chris...

Parents of Colorado Theater Shooting Victims Sue Ammo Seller

Sep 18 2014 // The parents of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing four online retailers of improperly selling ammunition, tear gas, a high-capacity magazine and body armor used in the...

Beacon Hill Names Senior Account Executive in Colorado

Sep 11 2014 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc. has tapped Tim Morgan to develop its Rocky Mountain region of the country.Morgan will be based in Denver, Colo. and he will manage new business brokerage opportunities and growing the...

High on Marijuana Insurance

Sep 8 2014 // The legal marijuana industry in the United States is experiencing tremendous growth.Legal cannabis markets in the United States are expected to grow 700 percent over the next five years, according to an industry report...

Marijuana and Workers’ Comp

Sep 8 2014 // There are some who believe medical marijuana and the workplace are a potent mix just waiting to be stirred as increasingly more states approve the herb and its derivatives for medicinal use.Not only are states approving...

Colorado City Appealing Ruling Against Fracking Ban

Aug 28 2014 // Longmont is pushing ahead in its legal battle to ban fracking and is inviting other cities to join an appeal to the Colorado Court of Appeals.City councilors voted unanimously Tuesday night to appeal a state judge’s...

A Fracking Compromise for Colorado

Aug 26 2014 // On the second day of his vacation, surrounded by science fiction and comic book fans at Comic Con, Alan Salazar looked around the San Diego Convention Center for a quiet place so he could take a phone call from his boss.It...