All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 27 2011 // Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed legislation approving state workers’ compensation reforms. Senate Bill 11-199, sponsored in the House by James Riesberg, D, and sponsored in the Senate by Lois Tochtrop, D:...
May 27 2011 // The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld an award of $18 million in exemplary damages to an Xcel Energy lineman who was injured when a Qwest Communications International Inc. telephone pole that he was working on...
May 26 2011 // Ohio-based The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies announced it is seeking to fill fill 95 sales and customer service positions in Colorado Springs, Colo., by the end of June.The hiring plans come as the...
May 20 2011 // A Colorado Court of Appeal has ruled that an insurer cannot file suit against another insurer for its failure to cancel a policy.According to court documents in First Comp Insurance v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of...
May 2 2011 // The Hanover, ChaucerA half-billion dollar deal that would make Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer part of Massachusetts-based The Hanover is in the works. Terms of the transaction involve a cash-for-stock swap valued at $510...
May 2 2011 // Zenith AgriBusiness SolutionsIn what appears to be its first foray into offering liability coverages, Zenith Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation insurance specialist, is offering agribusiness insurance in...
Apr 28 2011 // Tow-truck drivers and the widow of a Colorado Springs tow-truck driver dragged to his death earlier this year have passed the first hurdle to enacting safety changes.The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that...
Apr 25 2011 // Four families in Yoder, Colo., are building a sand bunker and stockpiling ammunition and weapons.A Black Forest resident has erected a geodesic dome on her 5-acre spread to grow vegetables, keeps horses for emergency...
Apr 6 2011 // IMA of Colorado Inc., a retail insurance brokerage, has announced that Mike McCubbin joined IMA as a business development executive. IMA of Colorado is part of the IMA Financial Group Inc., a financial services company...
Apr 4 2011 // Strong winds fueled a wildfire in canyon country west of Fort Collins, Colo., forcing the evacuation of 335 homes, authorities said April 3.There have been no reports of any injuries or damage to any of the dwellings, but...
Apr 4 2011 // The Wright Group Services announced it has purchased select assets of the Haylor Freyer and Coon (HFC) office located in Colorado. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Consistent with its strategic business plan,...
Mar 23 2011 // The Colorado House Economic and Business Development Committee has voted 9-4 to defeat a bill that homeowner’s insurance carriers say would have restricted their underwriting freedoms and their ability to provide...
Mar 22 2011 // An insurance company is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an Aspen restaurant seeking compensation for business it lost after a bomb threat on New Year’s Eve 2008. There were widespread evacuations in...
Mar 7 2011 // Colorado’s Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee unanimously recommended the confirmation of John Cevette, Blair Richardson and John Plotkin to Pinnacol Assurance’s board of directors. On Feb. 22,...
Mar 7 2011 // Legislators in California and Colorado have proposed new laws that would prohibit communities from charging a fee when police and fire personnel respond to motor vehicle accidents.The city of Sacramento recently adopted...
Mar 4 2011 // The board of insurance company Pinnacol Assurance has voted to strip CEO Kenneth Ross of his bonus for 2010.The Denver Post reports the board of the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurer made its decision...
Mar 3 2011 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has expanded its small commercial appetite with the addition of more than 60 business classes to its Commercial Protector (BOP) product.The majority of the...
Mar 2 2011 // A Colorado legislator has proposed a bill to limit spending at state-chartered entities, like Pinnacol Assurance. Last year, the the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer was criticized for lavish spending...
Feb 24 2011 // Colorado’s Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee has unanimously recommended the confirmation of John Cevette, Blair Richardson and John Plotkin to Pinnacol Assurance’s board of directors.On Tuesday,...
Feb 23 2011 // Legislators in both California and Colorado have proposed new laws that would prohibit communities from charging a fee when police and fire personnel respond to motor vehicle accidents.The city of Sacramento recently...