Latest Colorado Headlines

All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Women Sexually Abused by ICU Nurse Sue Colorado Hospital

Dec 22 2022 // Two women who say a nurse sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious in intensive care filed a lawsuit against the Colorado hospital where they were being treated, alleging the hospital’s management...

People Moves: Powers Adds Goode in Colorado

Dec 22 2022 // Powers Insurance & Risk Management, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, has hired Keith Goode as a Colorado-based, remote commercial risk manager. Goode is responsible for generating leads, developing new business,...

Ewing-Leavitt Acquires Stolte Insurance Agency in Colorado

Dec 16 2022 // Loveland, Colorado-based Ewing-Leavitt Insurance acquired Stolte Insurance Agency in Arvada, Colorado. Owner Rodger Bailey and his staff will join Ewing-Leavitt Insurance and Leavitt Group. For the time being, Stolte...

NFP Acquires Olson & Olson in Colorado

Nov 29 2022 // NFP acquired Olson & Olson Insurance Services Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Firm leaders Darrell Olson II and Lance Olson will join NFP and report to John Hohman, president, West region, NFP. Olson & Olson is an...

Regulatory Roundup: HCSMs, Delaware P&C Market Regulations, and Colorado Changes After Marshall Fire

Nov 9 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with...

Commissioner Says 2021 Colorado Wildfire Losses Surpass $2B

Nov 7 2022 // A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history, the state insurance commissioner...

Colorado Man Gets $7M Settlement in Stun Gun Case

Nov 4 2022 // The Colorado city of Idaho Springs said it has agreed to pay $7 million to a 75-year-old man who said an officer used a stun gun on him without warning and dragged him from his apartment after a dispute with a neighbor,...

Commissioner Says 2021 Colorado Wildfire Losses Surpass $2B

Oct 31 2022 // A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history, the state insurance commissioner...

Colorado-Based Emergency Transport Companies Sued for Religious, Disability Discrimination

Oct 27 2022 // Emergency transport companies Global Medical Response, Inc. (“GMR”), American Medical Response, Inc. (“AMR”), and AMR’s subsidiaries located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, violated federal...

Inszone Insurance Completes Acquisition of Precision in Colorado

Oct 17 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services acquired Precision Insurance in Colorado. Precision Insurance was opened in November of 2017 by Heather McBroom. Inszone was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sacramento, California....

Regulatory Roundup: Louisiana Offers Extension for Homeowners with Canceled Coverage, Illinois Asks for Honesty, Colorado Looks for Marshall Fire Claims Relief

Oct 17 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry...

People Moves: PEMCO Adds Sipes in Washington; Fernandez Named to Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado Board

Oct 13 2022 // PEMCO Mutual Insurance has welcomed Heather Sipes to the Seattle, Washington-based insurer’s marketing communications as a communications manager.Sipes has more than11 years of experience in marketing communications,...

Confie Acquires CoWest Insurance Group in Colorado

Oct 3 2022 // Confie acquired Colorado-based CoWest Insurance Group and the firm’s 30 insurance agency network.The acquisition underscores Confie’s plans to create an insurance agency network for independent agents within...

Colorado Insurance Agencies RSS and DLP form Conexus Insurance Partners

Sep 23 2022 // Westminster insurance agencies RSS Insurance Services and Day Larsen Pedersen Insurance have merged into one, local independent insurance agency serving the Colorado community. The firms are now Conexus Insurance Partners....

Colorado River Nearing Crisis Point 100 Years After Compact

Sep 13 2022 // The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem.The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow...

Hot Spots for Hot Cars: Colorado Leads U.S. in Vehicle Theft Rate, California in Overall Thefts

Sep 6 2022 // Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Colorado are all places where your car is most likely to be gone in 60 seconds.Vehicle thefts have skyrocketed in many areas of the U.S., according to the recently released...

Deadline for Western States to Cut Colorado River Use Looming

Aug 17 2022 // Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the Western U.S. hotter and drier.More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Denver Agency in Colorado

Aug 9 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Denver, Colorado-based Denver Agency. Denver Agency is a personal lines-focused insurance agency that specializes in serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients throughout...

People Moves: Risk Strategies Makes Roth Senior Vice President in Colorado; Dietrich Named to Pinnacol Board

Jul 29 2022 // Risk Strategies named Patrick Roth senior vice president, growth leader for the Central and West regions.Roth is located in Colorado. He will be responsible for developing a sales culture, managing all levels of producers,...

Officials: Fatal Colorado Flood Caused by Quick Downpour on Burn Scar

Jul 19 2022 // The area in northern Colorado where a flash flood swept away a camping trailer, killing a woman and a child, received nearly an inch of rain in a matter of minutes.Frank Cooper, a National Weather Service meteorologist,...