Latest Colorado Headlines
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Colorado Appoints 3 to Workers’ Comp Cost Containment Board
Apr 2 2010 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has has made three appointments to the Workers’ Compensation Cost Containment Board. Michael W. Mitchell of Windsor will serve a term expiring Dec. 13, 2011. Richard C. Zellen of Arvada will...
Pinnacol Separation Proposal Off the Table for 2010
Apr 1 2010 // The Colorado General Assembly has decided not to consider Pinnacol Assurance’s proposed plan to separate from the state, according to the company. Earlier in March, the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation...
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Mar 22 2010 // Iroquois of California based in Sacramento, Calif., added a former insurance consultant, marketing manager and agency owner to its staff. Mike Mullens will serve as regional manager in Northern California, bringing more...
Colorado Bill Aims to Make Insurance Policies More Readable
Mar 22 2010 // The Colorado House is considering a bill that would require automobile insurance policies, health benefit plans, limited benefit health insurance, dental plans, and long-term care plans that are issued or renewed on or...
Pinnacol Assurance Offers Colorado $330 Million to Become Private Insurer
Mar 19 2010 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer, has submitted a potential separation agreement to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter that would establish Pinnacol as a domestic mutual...
Colorado Wants Protections Against Uninsured Motorists
Mar 16 2010 // The Colorado House has passed a bill that requires a motor vehicle insurance company to be appointed as an insured person’s agent in a lawsuit arising from an accident in which the at-fault driver is deemed to be...
IMA Promotes Sims and Harvath to Vice Presidents
Mar 11 2010 // Denver-based IMA of Colorado Inc., a retail insurance brokerage, announced that Cathy Sims has been promoted to vice president – employee benefits, and Sandy Harvath has been promoted to vice president –...
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Mar 8 2010 // Steve Peeters, who most recently was president and chief operating officer of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Zurich Insurance Services, joined The Main Street America Group as vice president, commercial lines product. Peeters...
Colorado Bill Aims to Make Insurance Policies More Readable
Mar 4 2010 // The Colorado House is considering a bill that would require that automobile insurance policies, health benefit plans, limited benefit health insurance, dental plans, and long-term care plans that are issued or renewed on...
Colorado Entering Worst Month for Spring Snow Storms
Mar 1 2010 // Coloradans need to brace themselves for winter’s snowiest month, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association is warning. March 17 marks the seventh anniversary of the state’s most damaging blizzard...
Colorado Bills Could Increase Insurance Costs for Consumers
Feb 22 2010 // Several bills up for hearings this week in the Colorado legislature that are being pushed by the Colorado Trial Bar are likely to contribute to frivolous lawsuits that drive up insurance costs for consumers, according to...
Worker’s Comp Company Offers $200M to Colorado
Feb 17 2010 // Colorado’s state-chartered worker compensation insurer has offered the state $200 million for greater autonomy. In exchange, Pinnacol Assurance would remain the state’s workers’ compensation insurer of...
Wells Fargo Insurance Appoints Delich in Colorado Springs
Feb 11 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Charles Delich branch manager for its office in Colorado Springs, Colo. Delich is responsible for leading the service and sales teams in Colorado Springs, including a focus on...
Economic Downturn Puts Pressure on Return-to-Work Programs
Jan 24 2010 // The recent recession and record unemployment rates have increased pressure on the workers’ compensation insurance system to help return injured employees back to work while effectively managing costs. That was one of...
Colorado Gov. Studies Workers’ Comp Insurer Sale
Jan 22 2010 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is meeting with an investment banker to study the possible sale of the state’s interest in Pinnacol Assurance, a state-chartered workers compensation insurer, his chief counsel said. Ritter...
Economic Downturn Puts Pressure on Return-to-Work Programs
Jan 15 2010 // The recent recession and record unemployment rates have increased pressure on the workers’ compensation insurance system to help return injured employees back to work while effectively managing costs. That was one of...
ACE Expands High Net Worth Personal Lines Product in Colorado
Jan 12 2010 // ACE Private Risk Service, part of the ACE Group, has expanded the availability of its ACE Platinum Portfolio policy, a personal insurance program for high net worth clients, to Colorado. In addition, Clare S. Schachter has...
Colorado Blog Calls Attention to Workers’ Comp Depression
Dec 15 2009 // Workers’ compensation treatment often overlooks addressing the mental and emotional consequences of an injury that keeps one out of work, the Colorado Workers’ Comp Blog says. The blog is calling attention to...
Colorado Transportation Officials Help the Inebriated
Dec 4 2009 // Need a cab ride home this holiday season? A break on a hotel room to spend the night? Or just help figuring out if you’re too buzzed to drive home? The Colorado Department of Transportation is trying to help...
Colorado Man Guilt of $21 Million Ponzi Scheme
Dec 4 2009 // A former stockbroker accused of running a $21 million Ponzi scheme from his suburban Denver home for 15 years has pleaded guilty to felony mail fraud. Shawn Merriman entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Denver....
