All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2010 // The recent recession and record unemployment rates have increased pressure on the workers’ compensation insurance system to help return injured employees back to work while effectively managing costs.That was one of...
Jan 22 2010 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is meeting with an investment banker to study the possible sale of the state’s interest in Pinnacol Assurance, a state-chartered workers compensation insurer, his chief counsel said.Ritter...
Jan 15 2010 // The recent recession and record unemployment rates have increased pressure on the workers’ compensation insurance system to help return injured employees back to work while effectively managing costs.That was one of...
Jan 12 2010 // ACE Private Risk Service, part of the ACE Group, has expanded the availability of its ACE Platinum Portfolio policy, a personal insurance program for high net worth clients, to Colorado. In addition, Clare S. Schachter has...
Dec 15 2009 // Workers’ compensation treatment often overlooks addressing the mental and emotional consequences of an injury that keeps one out of work, the Colorado Workers’ Comp Blog says.The blog is calling attention to...
Dec 4 2009 // Need a cab ride home this holiday season? A break on a hotel room to spend the night? Or just help figuring out if you’re too buzzed to drive home? The Colorado Department of Transportation is trying to help...
Dec 4 2009 // A former stockbroker accused of running a $21 million Ponzi scheme from his suburban Denver home for 15 years has pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud. Shawn Merriman entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Denver....
Nov 24 2009 // Colorado-based weather researchers say three hurricanes formed in the Atlantic this year, two fewer than they predicted before the season and one less than their August update called for.Colorado State University...
Nov 23 2009 // Gov. Bill Ritter has appointed attorney Barbara J. Kelley of Denver to be the new executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, effective Dec. 1. She replaces Rico Munn, who became the executive...
Nov 13 2009 // The board of directors of Colorado’s Pinnacol Assurance voted Thursday to oppose many of the bills proposed by a legislative committee last month.The proposed bills, which have not yet been introduced into the state...
Nov 12 2009 // A Denver man allegedly defrauded people in a national Ponzi scheme involving more than $12 million that was supposed to go real estate investments, the Colorado securities commissioner said Tuesday.Investigators contend...
Nov 11 2009 // Colorado’s Center for Native Ecosystems has announced the launch of a new website, www.I-70WildlifeWatch.org, intended to decrease the incidence of wildlife getting hit by cars on the state’s roadways.The...
Nov 11 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the appointment of Lucas J. Bills to regional vice president for the company’s Denver region, which includes Colorado, Utah and...
Nov 9 2009 // One day while visiting a construction site operated by a client’s vocational technical school, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Colorado Chapter member Mark Semonisck, CSP, assistant vice president...
Nov 4 2009 // Colorado employers will be looking forward to additional financial relief next year by paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance due to the announcement that a significant component of workers compensation...
Nov 1 2009 // If there is one thing that Colorado’s quasi-public workers compensation provider, Pinnacol Assurance, has not been accused of being, it is being timid.When the state government tried early this year to tap the...
Oct 26 2009 // The IMA Financial Group, Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, today announced that Lindsey...
Oct 20 2009 // The chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance contends that the interim committee hearings investigating the state workers’ compensation insurer were biased in favor of injured workers.The committee, which was comprised...
Oct 20 2009 // The cause of a fire that destroyed a historic mall in Colorado’s Estes Park, at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, is under investigation, according to the Denver Post.The newspaper is reporting that the...
Oct 12 2009 // A Hawaii resident has pleaded guilty in Denver to an embezzling charge.Fifty-nine-year-old Barney T. Lyles was accused of embezzling from an employee benefit fund when he was chief executive officer at the defunct...