Latest Colorado Headlines

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Colorado Attorney General: Workers’ Comp Assets Off Limits

Apr 13 2009 // The Colorado solicitor general says tapping a state-created workers’ compensation insurance company for money to balance the state budget would be unconstitutional.The analysis from Solicitor General Dan Domenico was...

Colorado Defeats Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Bill

Apr 10 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, if it had passed, would have “defined as an...

Pueblo, Colorado’s Flood Maps Could Change

Apr 10 2009 // Federal authorities may update flood plain maps in Pueblo, Colo., a revision that could require more areas to obtain flood insurance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reconsidering decades-old maps of flood plains...

Pinnacol Exploring Ways to Help Colorado Budget

Apr 10 2009 // Pinnacol Assurance is exploring ways it could use its $2 billion in assets to voluntarily help the state balance its budget even as the state-created insurance company fights legislation that would hand over control of its...

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

Apr 9 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...

U.S. Forecaster Lowers Atlantic Hurricane Prediction

Apr 7 2009 // Citing cooler seas and the prospect of a weak El Nino, Colorado State University’s hurricane team lowered its 2009 Atlantic forecast Tuesday to 12 tropical storms, of which six could become hurricanes.The research...

Colorado Insurance Division Launches Online Insurance Guide

Mar 25 2009 // Colorado Gov. Ritter announced that the Department of Regulatory Agencies’ Division of Insurance has launched a new online insurance guide.The Web site guides consumers through the many choices to consider when...

Colorado Casualty Introduces Workers’ Comp in Nevada

Feb 22 2009 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has added workers’ compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line in Nevada.“Bringing workers’...

Allstate Lowering Rates on Colorado Auto Policies

Feb 18 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced that Allstate Insurance Group has decreased its rates for private passenger automobile policies in the state, providing a savings of $6.8 million to consumers through...

Colorado Casualty Introduces Workers’ Comp in Nevada

Feb 5 2009 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced it has added workers’ compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line in Nevada.“Bringing...

Colorado Family Seeks $250,000 After Officer Kills Dog

Feb 2 2009 // The owners of a dog that was shot and killed by a Denver police officer are seeking $250,000 in punitive damages from the city.A claim filed by Joseph and Katy Drayer alleges Officer Brian Brown fatally shot their...

Pole-to-pole Flight Finds CO2 ‘Piling Up’ over the Arctic

Jan 30 2009 // Scientists who flew a modified corporate jet from pole to pole to study how greenhouse gases move found carbon dioxide piling up over the Arctic, but also higher than expected levels of oxygen over the Antarctic.The...

Region’s Best Practices Agencies

Jan 26 2009 // Each year since 1993, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and Regan Consulting study leading agencies and brokers in the country. After the 2008 study, a total of 189 agencies from around the country...

People

Jan 25 2009 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Russell Johnston president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance.Johnston joined AIG in 1990 serving in senior management positions within...

Willis HRH Appoints Leaders for South Central and West Regions

Jan 23 2009 // Willis HRH, the North American retail division of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker, has named Mike Phillips as regional growth leader for its South Central Region and David Hofele as regional growth...

Colorado Evaluating Proposed Insurance Rate Filing Rule

Jan 16 2009 // The Colorado Division of Insurance continues to evalute regulation 5-1-10, Rate and Rule Filing Submission Requirements for Property and Casualty Insurance.The rule was proposed to “ensure that property and casualty...

Colorado Casualty Introduces Workers’ Compensation to Product Line

Jan 13 2009 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced that it is adding workers’ compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line. Workers’...

Gusts Blow in Colorado’s 4th Most Expensive Windstorm, Damage Estimated at $7M

Jan 5 2009 // Some Colorado residents spent the New Year making repairs and calling their insurance companies after strong winds pounded the Front Range, Colorado Springs, the Eastern Plains and Southern Wyoming on Dec. 30, 2008. A...

Colorado Proposes Rate Filing Changes

Jan 5 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance is proposing to amend regulation 5-1-10, Rate and Rule Filing Submission Requirements for Property and Casualty Insurance, “to ensure that property and casualty insurance rates...

Colorado Indicts Man in Asbestos Case

Dec 30 2008 // Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that the Statewide Grand Jury has indicted Richard Oliver on four felony charges involving asbestos removal and disposal. The charges include causing or contributing to a...