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Colorado Officials Defend Pinnacol Actions
Sep 8 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits on Friday and they told lawmakers it would be...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Under Scrutiny
Sep 7 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer is defending its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
People
Sep 7 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., has appointed Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which includes Nevada...
Colorado Lawmakers Hold Pinnacol Hearing
Sep 1 2009 // Colorado lawmakers heard from injured workers about their experiences with workers’ compensation on Monday. They gave testimony that the Denver Daily News called “horror” stories and...
Colorado Electricity Dam Fire Results in Indictment
Aug 31 2009 // Xcel Energy, Inc., Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating, Inc., and two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver late Friday on charges that the defendants violated workplace safety and health rules...
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Insurer Pinnacol Defends Agent Perks
Aug 17 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer last week defended its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
Colorado Touts $188 Million in Consumer Insurance Savings
Aug 11 2009 // Adding up savings, penalties and fines assessed, and surcharges on fines, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies’ Division of Insurance tallied more than $188 million in savings and benefits to consumers for...
Colorado To Hold Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Hearing
Aug 7 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced it will be holding a public hearing on Sept. 17, 2009, to discuss the workers compensation loss cost filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI...
Colorado Committee Evaluates State’s Workers’ Comp Insurer Pinnacol
Aug 5 2009 // A special committee of Colorado lawmakers is evaluating Pinnacol Assurance, to examine what role the state should have in managing the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer’s business. Ken Ross,...
U.S., Colorado Forecasters Trim Atlantic Hurricane Forecasts Again
Aug 5 2009 // The Colorado State University storm research team cut its 2009 Atlantic hurricane season forecast Tuesday, predicting that El Nino would trim the tally to 10 tropical storms, with four becoming hurricanes. The noted...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer Wants to Go Private
Jul 31 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund says the company wants to go private. Ken Ross, president and chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance, told The Denver Post editorial...
Colorado Casualty Appoints Irving to Regional VP for Arizona
Jul 29 2009 // Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company headquartered in Centennial, Colo., announced the appointment of Brent Irving to regional vice president for the company’s Arizona territory, which...
Colorado Independent Insurance Agents Association Seeks Award Nominees
Jul 23 2009 // The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Colorado (PIIAC) is sseeking nominations recognizing outstanding service to the association or to the insurance industry. The awards recognize individuals in several...
Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million
Jul 20 2009 // Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride that began June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounded Northern Colorado with golf-ball and baseball-sized hail, and...
Points of Light Institute Honors Pinnacol Assurance
Jun 25 2009 // Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance is being honored by the Points of Light Institute with the 2009 Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence. The award recognizes a business’s overall employee/retiree volunteer...
Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million
Jun 17 2009 // For the past eight days Mother Nature has taken Coloradans on a wild weather ride — starting June 7 with a tornado and damaging hail in Aurora and the South Metro area, then pounding Northern Colorado with golf-ball...
Business Moves
Jun 15 2009 // Heffernan Heffernan Insurance Brokers has established a new office in Chesterfield, Mo. – “Wrap Up Insurance Solutions” – which it describes as a full service wrap up administrator and consultant...
Insurance Agents, Brokers: Beware of Scam
Jun 15 2009 // Licensed insurance agents and brokers in California, Colorado and Nevada are being warned to beware of a scam targeting them. The Nevada Division of Insurance, California Department of Insurance and Colorado Division of...
Business Moves
Jun 15 2009 // The Hanover Specialty lines business will be a key growth engine in the next several years for Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover, according to CEO Fred Eppinger. In the past year, revenue from specialty lines at The...
Benshoof Named President of IMA of Colorado
Jun 10 2009 // The IMA Financial Group Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management, added Marcia Benshoof as president of IMA of Colorado. Prior to joining IMA, Benshoof served as...
