All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...