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Colorado Workers’ Compensation Premium To Remain Unchanged

Jul 26 2006 // Colorado employees are likely to see their workers’ compensation costs remain unchanged for 2007. State Insurance Commissioner David Rivera said the National Council on Compensation Insurance will not be filing for...

Colorado Seizes $5 Million in Collateral from Bail Bond Agent

Jul 20 2006 // Colorado regulators said Tuesday they had seized about $5 million in loan documents and other collateral from a bail bond agent, saying some of it may have been improperly kept from the people who posted it.The state...

Colorado Casualty Provides Disaster Planning Web Tool for Businesses

Jul 20 2006 // Businesses insured through Colorado Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, will be among the first in the Mountain West and Southwest states to be able to use Open for Business, a free, web-based tool that allows them...

Colorado Casualty Offers Policyholders Disaster Planning Guides

Jul 18 2006 // Colorado Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is helping its 14,000 homeowner insurance policyholders and homeowners throughout the West and Southwestern states protect their families and homes during wildfire...

The Drive Group Opens Data Center in Colorado Springs

Jul 7 2006 // The Drive Group of Insurance Companies, an auto insurer that operates through independent agents and brokers, has opened a new data center and document production facility in Colorado Springs, Colo. Over the next several...

Despite Bush veto, Florida legislators vow to revive no-fault bill in 2007

Jun 19 2006 // Irate Florida legislators, upset after Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed the state’s no-fault auto insurance law, are vowing to place the topic of no-fault insurance and the personal-injury-protection bill on the front burner...

Computers help Colorado firefighters spot problem homes

Jun 19 2006 // The next time a wildfire closes in on a Denver mountain home, there’s no guarantee a crew of firefighters will line up to defend it. A system of mapping and computer software, developed since the disastrous 2002 fire...

Computers Help Colo. Firefighters Spot Problem Homes

Jun 12 2006 // Next time a wildfire closes in on a Denver mountain home, there’s no guarantee a crew of firefighters will line up to defend it.A system of mapping and computer software, developed since the disastrous 2002 fire...

Colorado adds fraud prosecutors, investigators

Jun 5 2006 // The Colorado legislature has approved a bill adding a prosecutor and three new investigators to the Attorney General’s office to fight insurance fraud. Bill SB06-038, is awaiting the Governor’s signature, and...

Colorado prepares for hail, expects three to four catastrophic hailstorms

Jun 5 2006 // Colorado can expect three to four catastrophic hailstorms every year, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. The group said the damaging hail season is considered to be from mid-April to...

Colorado prepares for hail, expects three to four catastrophic hailstorms

Jun 5 2006 // Colorado can expect three to four catastrophic hailstorms every year, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. The group said the damaging hail season is considered to be from mid-April to...

Colorado State University Team Predicts Fewer Hurricanes Will Make Landfall

May 31 2006 // The U.S. Atlantic basin is likely to experience another active hurricane season, but coastal regions may face fewer land-falling major hurricanes than last year, according to Prof. William Gray and the Colorado State...

Colorado Has Eighth-Highest Rate Of Motorcycle Deaths

May 30 2006 // Colorado has the eighth-worst rate of motorcycle deaths in the nation and is the only state in the top 10 that does not require helmets, government statistics show.Colorado’s death rate was 1.77 per 100,000 people,...

Colorado Prepares for Hail, Expects Three to Four Catastrophic Storms

May 30 2006 // Colorado can expect three to four catastrophic hailstorms every year, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association. According to the group, the damaging hail season is considered to be from mid-April...

News Currents

May 22 2006 // Insurers pleased as Colorado General Assembly keeps auto system intactThe Colorado General Assembly adjourned its concluding session, which the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said was marked by the...

Colorado General Assembly Preserves Insurance Marketplace

May 10 2006 // The Colorado General Assembly adjourned its concluding a session, which the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said was marked by the defeat of a wide variety of legislation that would have forced...

Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’

May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...

FOUNDER OF CALIF.-BASED BOLTON & CO. PASSES AWAY

May 8 2006 // Dorance Dean Bolton, founder of Pasadena, Calif.-based Bolton & Company Insurance Brokers, passed away on April 21, 2006, at the age of 96.Bolton was a pioneer Southern California insurance broker and was a founding...

Mayfield: ‘2006 hurricane season CAN be worse than 2005’

May 8 2006 // With more than 55 million people living in coastal communities, the nation must learn its lesson from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and prepare now for what will happen after June 1, according to Max Mayfield,...

IMA of Colorado Names Gaston Senior Account Executive

May 2 2006 // IMA of Colorado Inc., Denver, has named Gary Gaston senior account executive focusing on the energy industry with expertise in Gulf of Mexico exposures. He was previously vicee president at Hibernia Insurance Agency....