Latest Colorado Headlines
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FIGHT OVER CREDIT BAN MOVES TO COLO. SENATE:
Apr 4 2005 // Legislation that would prohibit insurers’ use of credit information narrowly advanced out of the Colorado Senate State Affairs Committee on a 4-3 vote and will be opposed by the insurance industry on the Senate...
Fight Over Credit Ban Moves to Colo. Senate Floor
Mar 22 2005 // Legislation that would prohibit insurers’ use of credit information narrowly advanced out of the Colorado Senate State Affairs Committee Monday on a 4-3 vote and will be opposed by the insurance industry on the...
FARMERS TO LOWER RATES FOR COLO. AUTO CUSTOMERS:
Mar 21 2005 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced it will lower rates for its auto customers in the state of Colorado. Effective April 1, 2005, Farmers’ customers in Colorado will see a rate decrease that will average...
Regulators Name Consumer Liaison Reps for 2005
Mar 15 2005 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners recently named its funded consumer liaison representatives for 2005. Established in 1992, the program promotes consumer representation and interaction with NAIC members,...
Farmers to Lower Rates for Colo. Auto Customers
Mar 7 2005 // Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced Monday it will lower rates for its auto customers in the state of Colorado. Effective April 1, 2005, Farmers’ customers in Colorado will see a rate decrease that will...
Study Shows Tort-Based Auto System Provides Savings for Colo. Drivers
Mar 7 2005 // A Colorado study shows that since the state scrapped its ailing no-fault automobile insurance program in favor of a tort-based system, rates for some consumers have dropped between 19.5 percent and 27.1 percent. The study,...
Study Shows Tort-Based Auto System Provides Savings for Colo. Drivers
Feb 25 2005 // A Colorado study shows that since the state scrapped its ailing no-fault automobile insurance program in favor of a tort-based system, rates for some consumers have dropped between 19.5 percent and 27.1 percent. The study...
COLORADO SENATORS KO CREDIT BAN:
Feb 7 2005 // By a 5-2 bipartisan vote, members of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee rejected a measure that would have banned insurers from using credit history to underwrite and rate automobile and...
People & Places
Feb 7 2005 // Michael Miller Scottsdale Insurance Company named Michael D. Miller as president and chief operating officer. Miller replaces retiring SIC President R. Max Williamson. Miller has more than 27 years of experience in the...
Colorado Senators KO Credit Ban
Jan 28 2005 // By a 5-2 bipartisan vote members of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee rejected a measure that would have banned insurers from using credit history to underwrite and rate automobile and homeowners...
Bill to Prohibit Insurer Use of Credit-Based Scores Defeated in Colorado
Jan 26 2005 // On Tuesday, Colorado legislators “wisely” defeated a proposal to ban the use of credit-based insurance scores (SB 5), according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). “The Senate Business and...
Colo. Airport’s Insurance Jumps after Ebersol Crash
Jan 21 2005 // The crash of a corporate jet that killed the son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol and two other people has contributed to a 48 percent increase in Colorado-based Montrose Regional Airport’s liability insurance...
NAMIC Appoints Western Region State Affairs Manager
Jan 18 2005 // Former property and casualty claims adjuster, subrogation analyst and insurance attorney, Christian Rataj, has joined the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) as state affairs manager for the Western...
Colo. Puts Uninsured Motorists on Notice
Jan 7 2005 // Effective Jan. 1, 2005, Colorado now has one of the strictest laws in the country dealing with uninsured motorists. Under House Bill 1193, signed by Gov. Bill Owens earlier last year, penalties dramatically increase for...
Colo. Sex-Change Surgeon Retires After Losing Malpractice Insurance
Jan 3 2005 // Dr. Stanley Biber, who gained an international reputation as a sex-change surgeon until he stopped doing surgery in 2003, has closed his Trinidad, Colorado small office practice because he cannot get malpractice...
Study Finds Medical Costs Driving Up Auto Injury Claims
Nov 30 2004 // A new study by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) finds that claimed losses for auto injuries have escalated at vastly different rates across four states with no-fault auto insurance regulations. From 1997 to 2002, the...
Colo. Deputy Hurt in Rescue Attempt Now Told to File for Workers’ Comp
Nov 25 2004 // A Denver sheriff’s deputy initially told he was ineligible for workers’ compensation after trying to rescue an infant from a burning house, might be able to receive benefits after all, authorities said. George...
CONSTRUCTION DEFECT LEGISLATION DEFEATED IN COLO.:
Nov 22 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
Construction Defect Legislation Defended by Colo. Voters Overwhelmingly
Nov 4 2004 // Voters in Colorado Nov. 2 overwhelmingly turned back an effort to amend the state’s constitution and gut a construction defects reform measure passed by the legislature last year. In a victory for consumers and the...
AG SUES ID THEFT PROTECTION CO.:
Oct 25 2004 // The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew...
