Latest Colorado Headlines
All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
With eye on federal monies, more states adopting primary seat belt laws
Mar 20 2006 // Seventeen-year-old Brittney Hudson wasn’t wearing her seat belt when it mattered most, the moment her 2004 Toyota Celica rolled over along a rural stretch in western Colorado and ejected her from the vehicle. The...
With eye on federal monies, more states adopting primary seat belt laws
Mar 19 2006 // Seventeen-year-old Brittney Hudson wasn’t wearing her seat belt when it mattered most, the moment her 2004 Toyota Celica rolled over along a rural stretch in western Colorado and ejected her from the vehicle. The...
Colorado Emergency Medical Payments Coverage Bill Killed in Committee
Mar 13 2006 // Legislation forcing Colorado drivers to purchase additional emergency medical insurance coverage as part of their auto insurance policies was defeated in the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee by a vote of...
With Eye on Federal Monies, More States Adopting Primary Seat Belt Laws
Mar 9 2006 // Seventeen-year-old Brittney Hudson wasn’t wearing her seat belt when it mattered most, the moment her 2004 Toyota Celica rolled over along a rural stretch in western Colorado and ejected her from the vehicle. The...
Colo. wants industry to account for rising rates
Mar 6 2006 // The insurance industry came out strongly against a Colorado measure that would require it to disclose claims, payouts and rates, telling lawmakers a plan to increase regulation of their industry would drive up costs and...
COLO. MEDICAL PAYMENT COVERAGE BILL DEFEATED
Mar 6 2006 // Legislation to force Colorado consumers to buy medical payment coverage was narrowly defeated in the Colorado House. House Bill 1036, killed by a one-vote margin, would have required insurers to provide $5,000 medical...
PCI urging Colo. lawmakers to reject insurance data reporting bill
Mar 6 2006 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) testified before the Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee that legislation HB 1330, which would impose extensive new data reporting requirement on...
Colo. Supreme Court Decides Negligent Hiring Case
Mar 3 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has joined other industry members in an amicus brief to Colorado’s Supreme Court arguing that an employer is not liable under the tort of negligent...
Colo. Man Injured in Natual Gas Pumping Station Explosion
Feb 28 2006 // A fire and possible explosion at an EnCana natural gas pumping station injured one employee near Dacono and southwest of Fort Lupton, Colo., sheriff’s officials said. Weld County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Margie...
Denver court denies class action certification in Morris v. Travelers
Feb 20 2006 // U.S. District Court Judge Edward Nottingham has denied a class certification in Morris v. Travelers Indemnity Co. of America, according to Morrison & Foerster LLP. The law firm represented Travelers in court in...
Colo. senate wants insurers to pay medical bills
Feb 20 2006 // Auto insurers would have to pay ambulance and emergency room bills in car accidents, under a measure backed by a Colorado Senate panel. Officials for hospitals and ambulance services said someone needs to help them pay for...
Colorado wants to form consumer insurance board to advise commissioner
Feb 20 2006 // The Colorado House has introduced a bill that would create a Consumer Insurance Board to provide policy guidance to the Commissioner of Insurance, gather and prepare information for hearings regarding proposed insurance...
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Feb 19 2006 // Denver court denies class action certification in Morris v. Travelers U.S. District Court Judge Edward Nottingham has denied a class certification in Morris v. Travelers Indemnity Co. of America, according to Morrison...
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Feb 19 2006 // Colorado wants to form consumer insurance board to advise commissioner The Colorado House has introduced a bill that would create a Consumer Insurance Board to provide policy guidance to the Commissioner of Insurance,...
PCI Urging Colo. Lawmakers to Reject Insurance Data Reporting Bill
Feb 17 2006 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) testified before the Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee on Friday that legislation (HB 1330), which would impose extensive new data reporting...
AIG Auto Insurance Lowers Colo. Rates
Feb 14 2006 // AIG Auto Insurance is implementing a five percent rate decrease in Colorado. The move will lower auto insurance costs on over 10,000 vehicles and resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of savings for Colorado...
Colo. Wants to Form Consumer Insurance Board
Feb 13 2006 // The Colorado House has introduced a bill that would create a Consumer Insurance Board to provide policy guidance to the Commissioner of Insurance, gather and prepare information for hearings regarding proposed insurance...
Colo. Medical Payment Bill Goes Down to Defeat
Feb 13 2006 // Legislation to force Colorado consumers to buy medical payment coverage was narrowly defeated Monday on the Colorado House floor. House Bill 1036, killed by a one-vote margin, would have required insurers to provide $5,000...
Colo. Bill Denying Workers’ Comp to Illegal Immigrants Dies in Committee
Feb 10 2006 // A Colorado proposal to deny workers’ compensation benefits to illegal immigrants injured on their jobs has died in a Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee. Republican Sen. Greg Brophy’s bill 98 would...
Colorado Defeats Legislation to Change Claims Practices for Liability Coverage
Feb 9 2006 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has unanimously rejected an attempt to convert auto liability coverage into a quasi no-fault coverage for health care providers. The Property Casualty Insurers...
