Latest Colorado Headlines
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Spring Colorado Snowstorm Knocks out Power for 210K
May 23 2022 // A late spring Colorado snowstorm dumped several inches in the Denver metro area Saturday and knocked out electricity for about 210,000 customers, officials said. The wet snow weighed down tree branches and sent them...
Workers’ Comp Claims from 10 Years of Legal Cannabis in Colorado Reveal a Boring Trend
May 16 2022 // Data on injured workers from the nation’s most mature adult-use cannabis market is pretty boring. No excessive claims resulting from injuries suffered by stoned forklift drivers, high cultivators, or even dispensary...
Colorado Jury Awards Nearly $9M in Fertility Fraud Case
May 2 2022 // A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. The jury found that Dr. Paul B. Jones and...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Ryan Insurance Strategy Consultants in Colorado
Apr 25 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Ryan Insurance Strategy Consultants. John Ryan and his associates will continue operating from their current location under the direction of Kevin...
Online Marketplace Letgo Sued Following Colorado Slayings
Apr 18 2022 // The online marketplace Letgo is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after the parents of five children were fatally shot and robbed while using the app to try to buy a used SUV in suburban Denver in 2020. The lawsuit filed in...
Flight Attendants Settle Discrimination Suit with Colorado-based Frontier
Apr 18 2022 // Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Denver-based Frontier agreed to...
Lawsuit Alleges Power Line Sparked Colorado Wildfire
Apr 18 2022 // The first lawsuit filed in connection with a wildfire that destroyed over 1,000 homes and other buildings in suburban Denver claims that sparks from a power line started December’s blaze. The lawsuit filed against...
Colorado City Allows Fire Victims to Rebuild Under Older Codes
Apr 18 2022 // The Louisville City Council in suburban Denver voted in favor of allowing residents whose homes were significantly damaged or destroyed in Colorado’s most destructive wildfire to rebuild under less-stringent...
Southwest Colorado Farmers Plagued by Drought
Apr 11 2022 // With his hands stuffed deep into his pockets, Landan Wilson looks down at the ground and scuffs his boot back and forth against the loose blades of alfalfa hay scattered on the dirt. It’s early March, and Wilson is...
Colorado City Allows Fire Victims to Rebuild Under Older Codes
Apr 8 2022 // The Louisville City Council in suburban Denver voted in favor of allowing residents whose homes were significantly damaged or destroyed in Colorado’s most destructive wildfire to rebuild under less-stringent...
Charges Dropped Against in 2018 Colorado Wildfire Case
Apr 6 2022 // A judge dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial. It was not clear what would happen...
People Moves: Lockton Names Brown President of P/C for Mountain West; McGriff Adds Anderson in Colorado
Apr 6 2022 // Lockton promoted Ted Brown to president of property/casualty for the Mountain West region. Brown will focus on client experience and growing Mountain West’s P/C business. He joined Lockton in 2007. Ted Brown Justin...
Lawsuit Alleges Power Line Sparked Colorado Wildfire
Apr 5 2022 // The first lawsuit filed in connection with a wildfire that destroyed over 1,000 homes and other buildings in suburban Denver claims that sparks from a power line started December’s blaze. The lawsuit filed against...
Pinnacol Distributes $50M in Dividends to 51K Colorado Companies
Apr 4 2022 // Pinnacol Assurance is distributing general dividend checks to its customers totaling $50 million. Pinnacol has also lowered premium rates by an average of 11%. This is the seventh consecutive year of general dividend...
Colorado Stadium Fire Torched Seats, Suite Area
Mar 30 2022 // Firefighters extinguished a blaze that torched several rows of seats and a suite area at the Denver Broncos’ stadium last week. The fire broke out on the fourth level at Empower Field at Mile High just after 2 p.m....
Residents Return Home After Fleeing Colorado Wildfire
Mar 29 2022 // Nearly 20,000 people who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Colorado were back home Monday after firefighters were able to stop the spread of the fire at 190 acres. The fire that broke out Saturday in the rolling...
Jury Awards $14M in Damages to Colorado Protesters
Mar 28 2022 // Jurors found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd two years ago, ordering the city to pay a total of $14 million in...
Firefighters Increase Containment on Colorado Wildfire
Mar 28 2022 // A wildfire south of Boulder that forced nearly 20,000 people to flee was listed at 35% contained by Sunday afternoon and most evacuations had been lifted, officials with Boulder Fire-Rescue said. The fire, which ignited...
Pinnacol Distributes $50M in Dividends to 51K Colorado Companies
Mar 24 2022 // Pinnacol Assurance is distributing general dividend checks to its customers totaling $50 million. Pinnacol has also lowered premium rates by an average of 11%. This is the seventh consecutive year of general dividend...
Colorado Oil Regulator Rejects Plan to Drill Near Homes
Mar 15 2022 // The state of Colorado’s oil regulator this week rejected a request by Occidental Petroleum Corp. to drill new oil and gas wells roughly 800 feet away from homes, in a test of a new rule that sets a wide berth between...
