All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2013 // The mother of an Ohio college student who died at a ski area in Steamboat Springs, Colo., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city.Authorities have said 19-year-old Cooper Larsh suffocated after falling head...
Jan 9 2013 // The Colorado State Patrol has agreed to pay more than $1 million to the family of a man who was shot and killed when he refused to allow troopers into his Mesa County home without a warrant. Mark Silverstein, director of...
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines.Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Dec 31 2012 // Researchers at Colorado State University want to hear from farmers across the state who have been affected by this year’s drought.The Fort Collins Coloradoan reported CSU agricultural economists want to gauge the...
Dec 13 2012 // Fire codes could be getting stricter in the Colorado Springs neighborhood devastated by last summer’s Waldo Canyon Fire.The Gazette reported that Colorado Springs’ city council has given preliminary approval to...
Dec 12 2012 // Colorado, Oregon and Washington are among the first six states to get preliminary approval from the Obama Administration to operate a health insurance exchange.The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced the...
Dec 6 2012 // A new report says earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere may have been caused by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater. In a report announced Wednesday, geophysicists say an increase in earthquakes on the Raton...
Dec 5 2012 // Colorado officials say health care reform has given them the power to curb insurance rate hikes.Those curbs helped the state block a 24 percent increase request by Cigna. According to the Denver Post Cigna wanted to raise...
Dec 5 2012 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named William Martin and Justin Powell as account executives in the employee benefits group in the Greenwood Village, Colo. office.Martin has more than 38 years’...
Nov 28 2012 // The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced charges against the former CEO of a Denver, Colo.-based oil-and-gas company at the center of an insider trading scheme involving a Colorado insurance executive...
Nov 27 2012 // Colorado now ranks among the top 10 for the highest share of homeowners insurance claims paid out due to catastrophes. The Insurance Research Council says catastrophes triggered only 26 percent of the claims made on...
Nov 26 2012 // A company headed by a Colorado professor who invented a strategy board game has won a $1.6 million patent infringement verdict.The Gazette reported that Michael Larson developed a game call Khet, a strategy board game...
Nov 19 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Claims for the contents and homes damaged...
Nov 13 2012 // Authorities say a 34-year-old man who was thrown out of a Lakewood, Colo. bar for acting belligerently was found injured and unresponsive in a nearby parking lot and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Denver Post...
Nov 7 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Insurance claims for the contents and...
Nov 6 2012 // The former chief executive of Colorado-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. who is charged with five counts of insider trading is taking an indefinite leave of absence as an employee of the company and as a member of its board...
Nov 5 2012 // The father of the youngest person killed in the Colorado theater shootings is the latest to file a lawsuit in federal court against the theater operator.The Denver Post reported 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan’s...
Nov 2 2012 // The former chief executive of Van Gilder Insurance Corp. in Colorado is set to go to trial Jan. 2 on five counts of insider trading. The Denver Post reported Michael Van Gilder pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday...
Oct 18 2012 // A law firm that helped reach an $816 million settlement for first-responders to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has filed a lawsuit on behalf of several victims of the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting.The Denver Post reported...
Oct 16 2012 // Energy Fuels has reached a settlement with Telluride and San Miguel County in a Colorado lawsuit aimed at halting construction of the company’s proposed Pinon Ridge mill. The Daily Sentinel reported the settlement...