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Colorado Casualty Names Hickert Underwriting VP

Feb 4 2011 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, announced that Brenda K. Hickert has been named vice president, Underwriting. With more than 20 years of industry experience in positions of increasing...

Lischer Joins IMA of Colorado’s Surety Team

Jan 25 2011 // IMA of Colorado, Inc., a retail insurance brokerage based in Denver, has appointed Michael Lischer a surety account executive. IMA of Colorado is part of the IMA Financial Group Inc., a financial services company...

Business Moves

Jan 24 2011 // Hub International Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. (Hub), an insurance brokerage firm, has announced several acquisitions. It has acquired the shares of Hall-Conway-Jackson Inc. and the assets of Cascade Insurance...

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Jan 10 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, appointed Spencer J. Donkin president and CEO. Donkin joins Golden Eagle Insurance from Liberty Mutual Agency Corp.’s Regional Companies Group,...

Hub International Acquires Four Western Companies

Jan 4 2011 // Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. (Hub), an insurance brokerage firm, has announced several acquisitions. It has acquired the shares of Hall-Conway-Jackson Inc. and the assets of Cascade Insurance Group Inc., Bothell,...

2010’s Top Insurance Stories in the West

Dec 23 2010 // In 2009, independent insurance agents and brokers faced a “perfect storm” with the economic downturn, premiums at a fraction of what they used to be, and unemployment and home foreclosure rates up, said Kevin...

Willis of Colorado Appoints Anderson Senior VP for Construction

Dec 10 2010 // Willis of Colorado Inc.’s Construction Unit in Denver has appointed Stephanie Anderson has been appointed senior vice president. Anderson will be responsible for developing growth strategies, heightening client...

Colorado Court: Expert Can’t Be Excluded From Malpractice Case

Dec 7 2010 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a defense expert can testify in a medical malpractice case even though a defendant failed to produce the raw data that the expert had “considered” in rendering his...

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Dec 5 2010 // Oakland, Calif.-based catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT Inc. named Bill Keogh president. He will be based in the Hackensack, N.J., office. Keogh previously served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives. He...

Colorado Insurance Commissioner Morrison Steps Down

Nov 30 2010 // Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Executive Director Barbara Kelley announced the departure of Marcy Morrison as Colorado Insurance Commissioner. As of December 1, John J. Postolowski, a veteran state employee and...

$12 Million Recovered for Colorado Insurance Consumers, State Claims

Nov 12 2010 // Colorado insurance regulators fielded more than 25,500 inquiries from consumers in the past year, resulting in a total of nearly 5,000 formal grievances. During this period, the investigation of these grievances amounted...

Republicans Gain Control in State Houses

Nov 4 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great...

Ross Joins Gallagher Benefit Services’ Denver Office

Nov 2 2010 // Gallagher Benefit Services Inc. of Denver announced that employee benefits expert Dutch Ross has joined the office as a senior client consultant. Ross has been an employee benefits broker and consultant for a more than a...

Nov 1 2010 // Colorado Raising Workers’ Comp Insurance Loss Costs 3.4% Most Colorado employers will be looking at an average 3.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs, increasing the overall premiums...

Colorado Revising Flood Plain Rules

Oct 26 2010 // The staff of the Colorado Water Conservation Board is backing off a suggested flood plain rule that could have further limited where new hospitals, police stations and other critical facilities could be built. The board is...

Colorado Insurance Commissioner Recognized for Consumer Advocacy’

Oct 21 2010 // Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison has received the Excellence in Consumer Advocacy award, presented by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Consumer Representatives, at NAIC’s...

Study: Despite Rules, Surgery Mistakes Continuing

Oct 20 2010 // Three healthy men had their prostate glands removed. Five people had surgery on the wrong part of their spines. A child underwent an unneeded ear operation after the wrong person was called to go to the operating...

Colorado Raising Workers’ Comp Insurance Loss Costs 3.4%

Oct 18 2010 // Most Colorado employers will be looking at an average 3.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs, increasing the overall premiums they pay for workers compensation insurance in 2011, the state...

Progressive Expanding in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Texas

Oct 6 2010 // Progressive Insurance recently announced plans to add hundreds of new jobs in Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Texas by the end of January 2011. The additions include sales, service and claims positions. Progressive said it...

Colo. Fourmile Canyon Fire Most Expensive in State’s History

Oct 4 2010 // Insurance damage estimates from the Fourmile Canyon fire that burned in September now total more than $200 million, making it the most expensive wildfire in the state’s history, according to the Rocky Mountain...