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Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million

Jul 20 2009 // Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride that began June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounded Northern Colorado with golf-ball and baseball-sized hail, and...

Points of Light Institute Honors Pinnacol Assurance

Jun 25 2009 // Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance is being honored by the Points of Light Institute with the 2009 Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence. The award recognizes a business’s overall employee/retiree volunteer...

Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million

Jun 17 2009 // For the past eight days Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride — starting June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounding Northern Colorado with golf-ball...

Business Moves

Jun 15 2009 // HeffernanHeffernan Insurance Brokers has established a new office in Chesterfield, Mo. – “Wrap Up Insurance Solutions” – which it describes as a full service wrap up administrator and consultant for...

Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam

Jun 15 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them.The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...

Business Moves

Jun 15 2009 // The HanoverSpecialty lines business will be a key growth engine in the next several years for Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover, according to CEO Fred Eppinger. In the past year, revenue from specialty lines at The...

Benshoof Named President of IMA of Colorado

Jun 10 2009 // The IMA Financial Group Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management, added Marcia Benshoof as president of IMA of Colorado. Prior to joining IMA, Benshoof served as...

CEO of Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer: Private Would Be Better

Jun 10 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-created workers’ compensation insurance company says the organization could do a better job if it were privatized. CEO Ken Ross told state lawmakers that Pinnacol Assurance has paid...

Nevada, Colorado Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam

Jun 4 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them.The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...

Moody Insurance Agency To Market Cincinnati Insurance in Colorado

Jun 2 2009 // Cincinnati Financial Corp. today announced that its lead property casualty insurance subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Co., appointed Moody Insurance Agency in Denver as the first independent agency in Colorado to...

Colorado Nears Anniversary of Its Costliest Tornado

May 20 2009 // The tornado that devastated the community of Windsor, Colorado, on May 22 of last year added up to an estimated $193.5 million in insured damage– making it Colorado’s most expensive tornado.The claims came from...

Pinnacol Assurance Issues $120 Million in General Dividends

May 20 2009 // Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance, a Colorado source for workers’ compensation insurance, announced it is issuing general dividend checks totaling approximately $120 million to its policyholders. During the past five...

Colorado Legislature Ends Session With Insurance-Friendly Session

May 7 2009 // The Colorado General Assembly, which adjourned yesterday, took a commonsense approach to insurance-related legislation during its 2009 Session, according to the American Insurance Association.Bills of primary concern to...

Handsfree Cell Phone Bill Headed to Colorado Senate

Apr 29 2009 // A bill requiring Colorado drivers to use handsfree devices while talking on cell phones is headed to the Senate for a vote. The Senate Appropriations Committee backed House Bill 1094 on a 6-4 vote after exempting some...

Colorado’s April Snow Storm Piles onto Spring Flood Threat

Apr 28 2009 // The big melt is on across Colorado, increasing the threat of spring flooding, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. It’s also a wake-up call to homeowners and renters that they may not...

19 Plant Workers Sickened at Colorado Power Plant

Apr 22 2009 // An official with the Tri-State Generation and Transmission plant in Craig, Colo., says the company is trying to figure out how 19 workers suffered burning eyes and nausea while working on a generating unit. Company...

Colorado Senate Panel Looks at Workers’ Comp to Fund Higher Ed

Apr 20 2009 // Colorado lawmakers are looking at a plan to take $500 million from the state-created workers’ compensation insurance company to reverse deep cuts in higher education.The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed the...

Colorado Defeats Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Bill

Apr 20 2009 // Colorado lawmakers voted down SB 103, the Unfair Claims Practices Act. The legislation was killed in the House Health and Human Services Committee in a 6-5 vote.The bill would have “defined as an unfair claim...

Colo. Democrats Offer Alternate Budget Cuts

Apr 17 2009 // Democratic legislators in Colorado are offering an alternate package of budget cuts to avoid eliminating $300 million in funding to state colleges and universities, according to plans obtained by The Associated Press.The...

Colorado Senate Votes to Take $500 Million from Workers’ Comp Insurer

Apr 15 2009 // The Colorado Senate has backed two measures aimed at taking $500 million from a state-created workers compensation insurance company to balance next year’s budget over the objections of Pinnacol Assurance and the...