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Colorado Considers Laws for Pinnacol

Oct 5 2009 // Colorado lawmakers have filed bills to require better oversight for the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, saying they can’t ignore problems uncovered during weeks of hearings this summer.The...

Deer Crashes Increase in Colorado

Oct 1 2009 // State Farm Insurance says the number of collisions between vehicles and deer in Colorado has increased by 19 percent since 2004. The study released this week by the insurance company says most of the car accidents on...

Colorado’s MeyersDining Insurance Bought By CBIZ

Oct 1 2009 // Cleveland, Ohio-based employee benefits and accounting services firm CBIZ, Inc. has acquired MeyersDining, LLC, an insurance agency located in Boulder, Colorado, the company announced.Founded in 2005 with the merger of...

Colorado’s Pinnacol Weighed Purchase of Other Insurers

Sep 25 2009 // Documents show a state-chartered workers compensation insurer in Colorado once planned to seek permission to buy other insurance companies but later backed off.The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Pinnacol Assurance...

Colorado’s Pinnacol Defends Actions

Sep 21 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits during a legislative hearing and they told...

Colorado’s Pinnacol Denies Need for Change

Sep 18 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company is telling state lawmakers to leave his company alone.Pinnacol Assurance President Ken Ross issued a statement Wednesday saying the...

Willis HRH Appoints Richardson in Colorado

Sep 11 2009 // Willis HRH, the North American retail business of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, has named Jason M. Richardson as managing partner of its Colorado operations. In his new role, Richardson will be responsible...

Colorado Officials Defend Pinnacol Actions

Sep 8 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits on Friday and they told lawmakers it would be...

Colorado’s Pinnacol Under Scrutiny

Sep 7 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer is defending its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...

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Sep 7 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., has appointed Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which includes Nevada...

Colorado Lawmakers Hold Pinnacol Hearing

Sep 1 2009 // Colorado lawmakers heard from injured workers about their experiences with workers’ compensation on Monday.They gave testimony that the Denver Daily News called “horror” stories and “heart-wrenching...

Colorado Electricity Dam Fire Results in Indictment

Aug 31 2009 // Xcel Energy, Inc., Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating, Inc., and two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver late Friday on charges that the defendants violated workplace safety and health rules...

Colorado Workers’ Compensation Insurer Pinnacol Defends Agent Perks

Aug 17 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer last week defended its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...

Colorado Touts $188 Million in Consumer Insurance Savings

Aug 11 2009 // Adding up savings, penalties and fines assessed, and surcharges on fines, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies’ Division of Insurance tallied more than $188 million in savings and benefits to consumers for...

Colorado To Hold Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Hearing

Aug 7 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced it will be holding a public hearing on Sept. 17, 2009, to discuss the workers compensation loss cost filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI...

Colorado Committee Evaluates State’s Workers’ Comp Insurer Pinnacol

Aug 5 2009 // A special committee of Colorado lawmakers is evaluating Pinnacol Assurance, to examine what role the state should have in managing the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer’s business.Ken Ross,...

U.S., Colorado Forecasters Trim Atlantic Hurricane Forecasts Again

Aug 5 2009 // The Colorado State University storm research team cut its 2009 Atlantic hurricane season forecast Tuesday, predicting that El Nino would trim the tally to 10 tropical storms, with four becoming hurricanes.The noted...

Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer Wants to Go Private

Jul 31 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund says the company wants to go private.Ken Ross, president and chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance, told The Denver Post editorial...

Colorado Casualty Appoints Irving to Regional VP for Arizona

Jul 29 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., announced the appointment of Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which...

Colorado Independent Insurance Agents Association Seeks Award Nominees

Jul 23 2009 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado (PIIAC) is sseeking nominations recognizing outstanding service to the association or to the insurance industry. The awards recognize individuals in several...