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Colorado Residents Cleaning Up After Tornadoes, Hail

Jun 2 2008 // Colorado residents affected by powerful storms that struck the northern part of the state about 80 miles north of Denver on May 22, 2008, are beginning to sort through the wreckage and pick up the pieces. According to the...

Colorado’s Cherry Creek Insurance and Gaspar Jones Merge

May 29 2008 // Colorado-based Cherry Creek Insurance and Gaspar Jones have merged operations. Beginning immediately, the companies will execute the integration of the two agencies. The combined staff of 55 insurance professionals will...

Colorado Tornado, Hail Damage Adds Up To Estimated $147M in Damage

May 28 2008 // Colorado residents in Windsor and surrounding communities are starting the process of repairing and rebuilding their homes, following May 22’s tornadoes and hail and wind storm. Meanwhile insurance companies have...

Colorado Residents Cleaning Up After Tornadoes, Hail

May 23 2008 // Colorado residents affected by powerful storms are beginning to sort through the wreckage and pick up the pieces. According to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association, it is too early to estimate the total...

Tornado Strikes Northern Colorado

May 22 2008 // A large tornado struck Northern Colorado on May 22, 2008, striking several areas in the town of Windsor, which is about 80 miles north of Denver. Initial reports indicate one person was killed, but there were no official...

Colorado Casualty Offers Commercial Lines Products

May 21 2008 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, is introducing its new commercial lines product portfolio and Web-based underwriting application to agents in Colorado, Nevada,...

Business Moves

May 19 2008 // Barney & Barney, Saylor & Hill Barney & Barney LLC, a San Diego-based insurance brokerage, closed its merger with Saylor & Hill Co., an Oakland, Calif.-based brokerage. The combined companies will work...

Colorado Bill Gives Regulator Authority to Demand Insurance Compensation

May 19 2008 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a bill that will allow the state Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), and its Division of Insurance the legal authority to demand that insurance companies or agents compensate...

Colorado Bill Would Boost Penalties for Poor Insurance Carrier Conduct

May 19 2008 // The Colorado House is considering a bill that is designed to protect consumers by strengthening penalties when insurance carriers act unreasonably. However, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is...

Colorado Supreme Court: Employer Must Pay Suspended Workers’ Comp

May 16 2008 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that an employer must pay temporary disability benefits to an employee although the employee had been suspended. According to Sigala vs. Atencio’s Market, Eva Sigala was injured...

Colorado Bill Gives Regulator Authority to Demand Insurance Compensation

May 9 2008 // Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed a bill that will allow the state Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), and its Division of Insurance the legal authority to demand that insurance companies or agents compensate...

Pinnacol Distributing $55 Million to Colorado Businesses

May 8 2008 // For the fourth year in a row, Denver-based Pinnacol Assurance, a workers’ compensation insurance carrier, will issue a general dividend to its policyholders. In mid-May, eligible Colorado businesses will receive...

Auto Exempted From Colorado Fair Accountable Insurance Rates Act

May 5 2008 // After much testimony and deliberation on Colorado House Bill 1389, the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has amended a controversial bill that insurance associations said would have imposed a prior approval...

Colorado Motorcycle Fatalities Reach Record High

May 5 2008 // Motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Colorado, doubling from 45 in 1995 to an all-time high of 90 deaths in 2007, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). In the past five years (2003-2007) in...

Colorado Senate OKs Requiring Car Insurers to Offer Medical Coverage

May 2 2008 // Colorado drivers would be nudged into buying medical coverage on their car insurance policies under a proposal backed by the state Senate on April 29. Under the bill, insurance companies would have to include $5,000 in...

Colorado Bill Would Boost Penalties for Poor Insurance Carrier Conduct

Apr 28 2008 // The Colorado House is considering a bill that is designed to protect consumers by strengthen penalities when insurance carriers act unreasonably. However, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is...

Colorado Motorcycle Fatalities Reach Record High

Apr 22 2008 // Motorcycle fatalities are on the rise in Colorado, doubling from 45 in 1995 to an all-time high of 90 deaths in 2007, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). In the past five years (2003-2007) in...

Investigators Probing Cause of Colorado Blast

Apr 22 2008 // Insurance and fire investigators were examining the remains of a building in Breckenridge, Colo., to determine the cause of an explosion that leveled the two-story structure and injured a man. The man was in a second-story...

Insurers: Colorado Bill Threatens Auto Insurance Savings

Apr 21 2008 // The Colorado Legislature is considering a bill that the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America claims would add bureaucratic red tape and costs to the state’s automobile insurance system. House Bill 1389,...

New Markets

Apr 21 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Liquor Liability Coverage Nuts &...