Latest Colorado Headlines
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Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines
Dec 31 2012 // Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best...
Colorado University Seeks Farmers’ Experience With Drought
Dec 31 2012 // Researchers at Colorado State University want to hear from farmers across the state who have been affected by this year’s drought. The Fort Collins Coloradoan reported CSU agricultural economists want to gauge the...
Fire Codes Getting Tougher After Damaging Colorado Blaze
Dec 13 2012 // Fire codes could be getting stricter in the Colorado Springs neighborhood devastated by last summer’s Waldo Canyon Fire. The Gazette reported that Colorado Springs’ city council has given preliminary approval...
Feds Approve Colorado, Oregon, Washington Insurance Exchanges
Dec 12 2012 // Colorado, Oregon and Washington are among the first six states to get preliminary approval from the Obama Administration to operate a health insurance exchange. The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced the...
Earthquake And Drilling Link Prompts Colorado Review
Dec 6 2012 // A new report says earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere may have been caused by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater. In a report announced Wednesday, geophysicists say an increase in earthquakes on the Raton...
Colorado Moving To Curb Health Insurance Costs
Dec 5 2012 // Colorado officials say health care reform has given them the power to curb insurance rate hikes. Those curbs helped the state block a 24 percent increase request by Cigna. According to the Denver Post Cigna wanted to raise...
Poms & Associates Names Employee Benefits Executives in Colorado
Dec 5 2012 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named William Martin and Justin Powell as account executives in the employee benefits group in the Greenwood Village, Colo. office. Martin has more than 38 years’...
SEC Charges Oil CEO in Insider Trading With Colorado Insurance Exec
Nov 28 2012 // The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced charges against the former CEO of a Denver, Colo.-based oil-and-gas company at the center of an insider trading scheme involving a Colorado insurance executive...
Wildfires, Hail Take Toll On Colorado Home Insurance
Nov 27 2012 // Colorado now ranks among the top 10 for the highest share of homeowners insurance claims paid out due to catastrophes. The Insurance Research Council says catastrophes triggered only 26 percent of the claims made on...
Toy Patent Lawsuit Ends In Favor Of Colorado Professor
Nov 26 2012 // A company headed by a Colorado professor who invented a strategy board game has won a $1.6 million patent infringement verdict. The Gazette reported that Michael Larson developed a game call Khet, a strategy board game...
Colorado Springs Wildfire Expected to Create Jobs
Nov 19 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Claims for the contents and homes damaged...
Man Dies After Being Tossed From Colorado Bar
Nov 13 2012 // Authorities say a 34-year-old man who was thrown out of a Lakewood, Colo. bar for acting belligerently was found injured and unresponsive in a nearby parking lot and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The Denver Post...
Colorado Springs Wildfire Expected To Create Jobs
Nov 7 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Insurance claims for the contents and...
Ex-Van Gilder Insurance CEO in Colorado Takes Leave Of Absence
Nov 6 2012 // The former chief executive of Colorado-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. who is charged with five counts of insider trading is taking an indefinite leave of absence as an employee of the company and as a member of its board...
Dad Of Girl Killed In Colorado Theater Shooting Sues
Nov 5 2012 // The father of the youngest person killed in the Colorado theater shootings is the latest to file a lawsuit in federal court against the theater operator. The Denver Post reported 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan’s...
January Trial Set For Former Colorado Insurance Firm Executive
Nov 2 2012 // The former chief executive of Van Gilder Insurance Corp. in Colorado is set to go to trial Jan. 2 on five counts of insider trading. The Denver Post reported Michael Van Gilder pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday...
Another Lawsuit Filed Over Colorado Theater Shooting
Oct 18 2012 // A law firm that helped reach an $816 million settlement for first-responders to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has filed a lawsuit on behalf of several victims of the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting. The Denver Post...
Energy Fuels Settles With 2 in Colorado Uranium Mill Suit
Oct 16 2012 // Energy Fuels has reached a settlement with Telluride and San Miguel County in a Colorado lawsuit aimed at halting construction of the company’s proposed Pinon Ridge mill. The Daily Sentinel reported the settlement...
Colorado Parents Say Avalanche Not a Routine Ski Risk
Oct 16 2012 // The parents of a 13-year-old Colorado boy killed in an avalanche last winter say it’s not a ski risk protected from lawsuits. The parents sued Vail Resorts last summer claiming the company’s negligence created...
Colorado Giving $1.3 Million For Wildfire Recovery
Oct 14 2012 // Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is providing $1.3 million for recovery in the Lower North Fork Fire burn area. Hickenlooper says the funding announced Friday can be used to pay for such things as removing burned trees in...
