All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2011 // Legislators in Colorado are considering a bill that would require additional disclosures of information that insurers use for underwriting personal lines property/casualty insurance policies.House Bill 11-1127, concerning...
Feb 10 2011 // To increase presence in the Colorado marketplace, Allstate Insurance Co. announced it plans to appoint 54 Colorado agency owners by the end of 2011. Allstate’s new and existing agencies in the state will also hire...
Feb 4 2011 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, announced that Brenda K. Hickert has been named vice president, Underwriting. With more than 20 years of industry experience in positions of increasing...
Jan 25 2011 // IMA of Colorado, Inc., a retail insurance brokerage based in Denver, has appointed Michael Lischer a surety account executive. IMA of Colorado is part of the IMA Financial Group Inc., a financial services company...
Jan 24 2011 // Hub InternationalChicago-based Hub International Ltd. (Hub), an insurance brokerage firm, has announced several acquisitions. It has acquired the shares of Hall-Conway-Jackson Inc. and the assets of Cascade Insurance Group...
Jan 10 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, appointed Spencer J. Donkin president and CEO.Donkin joins Golden Eagle Insurance from Liberty Mutual Agency Corp.’s Regional Companies Group,...
Jan 4 2011 // Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. (Hub), an insurance brokerage firm, has announced several acquisitions.It has acquired the shares of Hall-Conway-Jackson Inc. and the assets of Cascade Insurance Group Inc., Bothell,...
Dec 23 2010 // In 2009, independent insurance agents and brokers faced a “perfect storm” with the economic downturn, premiums at a fraction of what they used to be, and unemployment and home foreclosure rates up, said Kevin...
Dec 10 2010 // Willis of Colorado Inc.’s Construction Unit in Denver has appointed Stephanie Anderson has been appointed senior vice president. Anderson will be responsible for developing growth strategies, heightening client...
Dec 7 2010 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a defense expert can testify in a medical malpractice case even though a defendant failed to produce the raw data that the expert had “considered” in rendering his...
Dec 5 2010 // Oakland, Calif.-based catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT Inc. named Bill Keogh president. He will be based in the Hackensack, N.J., office.Keogh previously served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives. He...
Nov 30 2010 // Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Executive Director Barbara Kelley announced the departure of Marcy Morrison as Colorado Insurance Commissioner. As of December 1, John J. Postolowski, a veteran state employee and...
Nov 12 2010 // Colorado insurance regulators fielded more than 25,500 inquiries from consumers in the past year, resulting in a total of nearly 5,000 formal grievances. During this period, the investigation of these grievances amounted...
Nov 4 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country.Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great...
Nov 2 2010 // Gallagher Benefit Services Inc. of Denver announced that employee benefits expert Dutch Ross has joined the office as a senior client consultant. Ross has been an employee benefits broker and consultant for a more than a...
Nov 1 2010 // Colorado Raising Workers’ Comp Insurance Loss Costs 3.4%Most Colorado employers will be looking at an average 3.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs, increasing the overall premiums...
Oct 26 2010 // The staff of the Colorado Water Conservation Board is backing off a suggested flood plain rule that could have further limited where new hospitals, police stations and other critical facilities could be built.The board is...
Oct 21 2010 // Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison has received the Excellence in Consumer Advocacy award, presented by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Consumer Representatives, at NAIC’s...
Oct 20 2010 // Three healthy men had their prostate glands removed. Five people had surgery on the wrong part of their spines. A child underwent an unneeded ear operation after the wrong person was called to go to the operating...
Oct 18 2010 // Most Colorado employers will be looking at an average 3.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs, increasing the overall premiums they pay for workers compensation insurance in 2011, the state...