Latest Colorado Headlines
All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Colorado Wants Insurance Company to Cut Severance
Nov 10 2011 // Colorado wants top executives at the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund to waive big severance payments if the quasi-state agency is privatized. Gov. John Hickenlooper and Pinnacol Assurance are...
Colorado Panel to Examine Pinnacol Privatization Proposal
Nov 7 2011 // A proposal to privatize the state-chartered workers’ compensation insurer, Pinnacol Assurance, would give Colorado a $340 million ownership stake while restructuring it as a subsidiary of a mutual insurance holding...
Colorado Allstate Agents Hiring Announcement Follows Lackluster Jobs Report
Nov 4 2011 // In the wake of lackluster unemployment figures released on Friday a large insurance company is trying to draw attention to opportunities within Colorado in the industry and its firm. Friday’s report from the U.S....
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Rates to Rise in 2012
Nov 2 2011 // Colorado employers will see an increase in workers’ compensation insurance premiums in 2012. The Colorado Division of Insurance announced that the “loss costs” component of workers’ compensation...
Poms & Associates’ Colorado Office Names Regional Director
Oct 26 2011 // Rick Ninneman has joined Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc.’s Colorado office as regional director. Prior to Poms, Ninneman was executive vice president of M3 Insurance Solutions Inc., where he was...
EPA to Push Cleanup of Colorado Coal Plants
Oct 26 2011 // The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says federal regulators will continue to push for the cleanup of coal power plants in southwestern Colorado despite the rough economy. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson praised...
Colorado Processing Plant Faulted in Listeria Outbreak
Oct 19 2011 // Unsanitary conditions at a packing plant that processed fresh cantaloupes from a Colorado farm likely contributed to one of the deadliest listeria outbreaks in U.S. history, health regulators said on Wednesday. The Food...
Report on Colorado’s Fourmile Fire: Insurance Losses Exceed $200 Million
Oct 14 2011 // A preliminary report on the 2010 Fourmile Canyon wildfire in Boulder County shows insured losses exceeded $200 million, fire management costs will have exceeded $14 million following rehabilitation efforts, and that while...
Report on Destructive Colorado Fourmile Fire Due Out Today
Oct 14 2011 // A preliminary report on the Fourmile wildfire in September, 2010, considered one of the most destructive in Colorado history, is due out today. A spokeswoman for Colorado Sen. Mark Udall said he plans to release a report...
Colorado Firms Wright Group and Pells Combine
Oct 5 2011 // A pair of Colorado insurance firms have joined forces for an expansion in the area, as well as nationally. The Wright Group Services and Pells Insurance Associates have combined resources to be better poised for continued...
Colorado, Oklahoma Metro Areas Dominate List of Hail-prone Cities
Oct 3 2011 // Metropolitan areas in Colorado and Oklahoma have the distinction of making up more than half the list of top 10 hail-prone areas in the United States, according to a recently released study. The list, which was compiled by...
Colorado Chemical Depot Says Safety Still a Concern
Sep 27 2011 // Federal officials say safety is still a concern at the Pueblo Chemical Depot because of leaking weapons. Quality assurance specialist Lisabeth Watchutka says more than 100 of the 780,000 chemical weapons stored at the...
Report: Colorado and Oklahoma Cities Dominate Top 10 Hail Prone Metro Areas
Sep 16 2011 // Metropolitan areas in Colorado and Oklahoma have the distinction of making up more than half the list of top 10 hail-prone areas in the U.S., according to a recently released study. The list, which was compiled by CDS...
Pinnacol Stops Administering Colorado State Claims
Sep 5 2011 // A Colorado-chartered workers’ compensation insurer will no longer administer the claims of state employees following disagreements with state officials over lavish trips, compensation and golden parachutes for...
Colorado Says It Has No Funds to Aid Earthquake Victims
Aug 29 2011 // Colorado officials say they have no money to help earthquake victims in southern Colorado. Department of Local Affairs spokeswoman Linda Rice said the state is providing technical assistance, including geological analysis,...
Colorado Residents Assess Quake Damage
Aug 26 2011 // DENVER _ Southern Colorado residents assessed damage to homes and businesses Wednesday from a magnitude-5.3 quake, the state’s biggest since 1967, as officials warned that minor aftershocks were expected for...
Colorado Jostled with Earthquake Aftershocks
Aug 25 2011 // Colorado has been jostled with 13 aftershocks after Monday night’s magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck just hours before a magnitude-5.8 temblor hit Virginia, earthquake monitors said Wednesday. Geophysicist Amy Vaughan...
Earthquake Hits Rural Colorado, Too
Aug 24 2011 // Virginia’s earthquake isn’t the only notable temblor to hit the United States this week. On Monday the largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 40 years shook hundreds of people in the southern part of...
Pinnacol Stops Administering Colorado State Claims
Aug 8 2011 // A Colorado-chartered workers’ compensation insurer will no longer administer the claims of state employees following disagreements with state officials over lavish trips, compensation and golden parachutes for key...
Eight More Colorado Counties Declared Disaster Areas
Aug 3 2011 // DENVER _ Eight more Colorado counties have been declared natural disaster areas because of drought and a freeze. Colorado Sen. Mark Udall’s office said Monday the designation encompasses Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla,...
