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AM Best Says Demand Surge and Inflation to Amplify Colorado Wildfire Losses

Jan 12 2022 // AM Best expects demand surge and rising inflationary pressures on building costs to add to overall loss estimates in the recent wildfires in Colorado.In a commentary AM Best notes that early industry estimates place losses...

Pandemic Adding Cost to Rebuild After Colorado Wildfire

Jan 11 2022 // Rex and Barba Hickman’s home of 23 years near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains has been reduced to a blackened heap by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history.Before the Dec. 30 blaze, which ripped...

Colorado Wildfire Caused $513M in Damage, Officials Say

Jan 10 2022 // Last week’s Colorado wildfire caused at least $513 million in damage and destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and structures, officials as they updated the toll of property lost in the most destructive wildfire in state...

Modeler Estimates Insured Losses From Colorado Wildfire at $1B

Jan 6 2022 // The Colorado wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in late December will result in roughly $1 billion in losses, according to a report from catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Co.On Dec. 30, a devastating...

Investigators Narrow Search for Origin of Massive Colorado Wildfire

Jan 4 2022 // Investigators looking for the cause of the Colorado wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes have narrowed their search to a sparsely populated neighborhood near Boulder where a passer-by captured video of a burning shed...

2 Still Missing in Colorado Wildfire; Cause Under Investigation

Jan 4 2022 // Search teams looked for two missing people in the smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire while people who escaped the flames sorted through the charred remnants of their homes to find what was...

Officials Probing Cause of Massive Colorado Fire

Jan 3 2022 // Investigators are still trying to determine what sparked a massive fire in a suburban area near Denver that burned neighborhoods to the ground and destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and other buildings.Three people are missing...

Arthur J. Gallagher to Pay $40K to Settle Colorado Religious Discrimination Suit

Dec 20 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. will pay $40,000 to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The EEOC charged that Arthur J. Gallagher violated federal...

Mining Company to Pay Colorado $1.6M in Proposed Settlement for Spill

Dec 15 2021 // A mining company has agreed to pay Colorado $1.6 million to resolve its liability for natural resource damage related to the 2015 Gold King Mine spill that fouled rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.The proposed...

Arthur J. Gallagher to Pay $40K to Settle Colorado Religious Discrimination Suit

Dec 7 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. will pay $40,000 to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The EEOC charged that Arthur J. Gallagher violated federal...

Evacuation Orders Lifted for Central Colorado Wildfire

Dec 7 2021 // Firefighters made progress containing a 15-acre wildfire in a central Colorado mountain community as authorities lifted evacuation orders Monday for residents who were forced to leave their homes a day earlier.Clear Creek...

Colorado Suburb Paying $15M to Settle Elijah Mcclain Suit

Nov 22 2021 // The Denver, Colorado suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a...

Pinnacol in Colorado to Decrease Workers’ Comp Rates in 2022

Nov 15 2021 // Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado announced it will lower rates for the carrier’s 53,000-plus policyholders in Colorado by an average of 11% in 2022.The decrease will become effective Jan. 1, 2022. Pinnacol has...

One80 Intermediaries Acquires Hill Program Managers in Colorado

Nov 2 2021 // One80 Intermediaries acquired Hill Program Managers LLC, a Denver, Colo.-based program manager for commercial lines insurance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hill Program specializes in oil and gas service...

Parents of Unrestrained Girl Killed on Ride Sue Colorado Theme Park

Nov 1 2021 // On her family’s first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt and cousins last month.When the floor pulled away,...

Parents of Unrestrained Girl Killed on Ride Sue Colorado Theme Park

Oct 22 2021 // On her family’s first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt and cousins last month.When the floor pulled away from...

Amazon Sued by Colorado Warehouse Workers Over COVID-19 Screening Pay

Oct 18 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in at work.Jennifer Vincenzetti, who worked at two Amazon...

Colorado Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Seafood Sickens 82

Oct 11 2021 // A salmonella outbreak tied to seafood that Denver, Colo.-based Northeast Seafood Products Inc. processed or manufactured has sickened at least 82 Coloradans in 14 counties.Of 102 people in 14 states who got sick from...

Amazon Sued by Colorado Warehouse Workers Over COVID-19 Screening Pay

Oct 7 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings before clocking in at work.Jennifer Vincenzetti, who worked at two Amazon...

Goats Being Brought in to Help Slow Colorado Wildfires

Oct 4 2021 // A group of horse trailers pulls up to a trailhead outside of Carbondale, Colo. The doors open and more than 800 goats jump out onto the gravel parking lot. The goats head straight for the closest grassy hill and...