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