Latest Colorado Headlines
All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
Colorado Researchers Admit Missing Hurricane Prediction
Nov 24 2009 // Colorado-based weather researchers say three hurricanes formed in the Atlantic this year, two fewer than they predicted before the season and one less than their August update called for. Colorado State University...
Kelley Named to Colorado’s Regulatory Agencies Department
Nov 23 2009 // Gov. Bill Ritter has appointed attorney Barbara J. Kelley of Denver to be the new executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, effective Dec. 1. She replaces Rico Munn, who became the executive...
Pinnacol Board to Oppose Colorado Bills
Nov 13 2009 // The board of directors of Colorado’s Pinnacol Assurance voted Thursday to oppose many of the bills proposed by a legislative committee last month. The proposed bills, which have not yet been introduced into the state...
Colorado Man Accused of Ponzi Scheme
Nov 12 2009 // A Denver man allegedly defrauded people in a national Ponzi scheme involving more than $12 million that was supposed to go real estate investments, the Colorado securities commissioner said Tuesday. Investigators contend...
Colorado Initiates System to Prevent Wildlife Crashes
Nov 11 2009 // Colorado’s Center for Native Ecosystems has announced the launch of a new website, www.I-70WildlifeWatch.org, intended to decrease the incidence of wildlife getting hit by cars on the state’s roadways. The...
Colorado Casualty Names Regional VP
Nov 11 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the appointment of Lucas J. Bills to regional vice president for the company’s Denver region, which includes Colorado, Utah and...
Safety Engineers Help Colorado School
Nov 9 2009 // One day while visiting a construction site operated by a client’s vocational technical school, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Colorado Chapter member Mark Semonisck, CSP, assistant vice president...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop
Nov 4 2009 // Colorado employers will be looking forward to additional financial relief next year by paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance due to the announcement that a significant component of workers compensation...
Colorado’s Workers’ Comp Fund Pinnacol: Swagger and Success Invite Scrutiny
Nov 1 2009 // If there is one thing that Colorado’s quasi-public workers compensation provider, Pinnacol Assurance, has not been accused of being, it is being timid. When the state government tried early this year to tap the...
Colorado’s IMA Financial Hires Executive
Oct 26 2009 // The IMA Financial Group, Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, today announced that Lindsey...
Pinnacol Chief Blasts Colorado State Legislators’ Hearings
Oct 20 2009 // The chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance contends that the interim committee hearings investigating the state workers’ compensation insurer were biased in favor of injured workers. The committee, which was comprised...
Colorado Fire in Historic Mall Investigated
Oct 20 2009 // The cause of a fire that destroyed a historic mall in Colorado’s Estes Park, at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, is under investigation, according to the Denver Post. The newspaper is reporting that the...
Insurance Broker Pleads to Embezzling in Colorado
Oct 12 2009 // A Hawaii resident has pleaded guilty in Denver to an embezzling charge. Fifty-nine-year-old Barney T. Lyles was accused of embezzling from an employee benefit fund when he was chief executive officer at the defunct...
Colorado Considers Laws for Pinnacol
Oct 5 2009 // Colorado lawmakers have filed bills to require better oversight for the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, saying they can’t ignore problems uncovered during weeks of hearings this summer. The...
Deer Crashes Increase in Colorado
Oct 1 2009 // State Farm Insurance says the number of collisions between vehicles and deer in Colorado has increased by 19 percent since 2004. The study released this week by the insurance company says most of the car accidents on...
Colorado’s MeyersDining Insurance Bought By CBIZ
Oct 1 2009 // Cleveland, Ohio-based employee benefits and accounting services firm CBIZ, Inc. has acquired MeyersDining, LLC, an insurance agency located in Boulder, Colorado, the company announced. Founded in 2005 with the merger of...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Weighed Purchase of Other Insurers
Sep 25 2009 // Documents show a state-chartered workers compensation insurer in Colorado once planned to seek permission to buy other insurance companies but later backed off. The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Pinnacol Assurance...
