Latest Colorado Headlines
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Alera Group Acquires Fall River Employee Benefits in Colorado
Mar 20 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Fall River Employee Benefits in Denver, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fall River joins Alera Group through Benefit Commerce Group, an Alera Group company. The Fall River team will...
Colorado Man And His Insurer to Pay $500K Over 2017 Wildfire
Mar 19 2020 // A Colorado man and his insurance company paid $500,000 to the U.S. government over a wildfire that burned federal land in the state. Dale Owns and Grange Insurance Association made the payment to resolve liability for the...
Passenger Reaction to Sneezing Person Caused Colorado Flight to Divert
Mar 11 2020 // A commercial flight from Colorado ski country to Newark, New Jersey made an unscheduled stop in Denver after several passengers became disruptive because they were seated next to someone who they thought was sick,...
Colorado Refinery to Pay $9M for Air Violations
Mar 9 2020 // The Canada-based owner-operator of a Denver, Colo.-area oil refinery will pay $9 million to settle air quality violations dating to 2017, state officials announced Friday. The settlement with Calgary-based Suncor Energy is...
Virtus Acquires First Line Insurance Services in Colorado
Mar 5 2020 // Virtus LLC and its subsidiary Virtus Rocky Mountain LLC have acquired Denver, Colo.-based insurance brokerage firm First Line Insurance Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. First Line’s focus has been on...
Report Shows Underestimated Weather Led to Colorado Wildfire
Mar 5 2020 // A controlled burn that became a wildfire in Colorado was the result of weather conditions that were underestimated by fire personnel, state officials said. The Colorado Department of Public Safety Compliance and...
Worldwide Facilities Names Foote Senior Vice President in Colorado
Mar 4 2020 // Worldwide Facilities has named Brad Foote a senior vice president. Foote will lead Worldwide Facilities’ new Denver, Colo. office. He has more than 14 years of experience in the wholesale insurance industry and...
Colorado Excessive Force Lawsuit Settled for $125K
Feb 24 2020 // Fort Collins, Colo. has reached a $125,000 settlement with a woman who sued the city after an off-duty police officer pinned her to the ground outside her apartment complex. The Coloradoan reports a city spokeswoman...
How One County Plans to Vet Insurers for Fossil Fuel Investments
Feb 20 2020 // “We have front row seats,” said Elise Jones, a Boulder County commissioner. Jones along with two other commissioners oversees government affairs in the Colorado county of 330,000 or so at the base of the...
New Colorado Law Tackles Employee Equity, Investment in Startup Cannabis Industry
Feb 13 2020 // The startup-laden cannabis industry is probably just right for those who are willing to forego a few extra dollars on their paychecks for the possibility of a bigger payout later when the company grows or goes...
Risk Strategies Acquires Transport Risk Management in Colorado
Feb 4 2020 // Risk Strategies has acquired Transport Risk Management Inc. in Denver, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Risk Strategies is a privately held, national insurance broker with offices across the country. Transport...
Colorado Lawmakers Want to Toughen Workplace Harassment Protections
Jan 27 2020 // A proposal to rewrite Colorado’s rules for workplace harassment claims is expected to be introduced soon at the state capitol. It would change things for employers by limiting the use of confidentiality agreements in...
Colorado Couple Will Get $50K After Dog Housing Lawsuit
Jan 27 2020 // The U.S. attorney’s office has ordered a Colorado homeowner’s association to pay $50,000 to a couple after they violated the Fair Housing Act by failing to allow a woman to stay in the complex with her...
Colorado Couple Will Get $50K After Dog Housing Lawsuit
Jan 13 2020 // The U.S. attorney’s office has ordered a Colorado homeowner’s association to pay $50,000 to a couple after they violated the Fair Housing Act by failing to allow a woman to stay in the complex with her...
Women Sue Frontier Airlines in Colorado Over Sex Assaults by Passengers
Jan 13 2020 // Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by passengers on Frontier Airlines flights sued the Denver-based budget carrier for allegedly refusing to help them and either not having or failing to follow policies to...
Today is the Most Dangerous Day for Colorado Workers, Report Shows
Jan 9 2020 // Jan. 9 is the most dangerous day of the year for Colorado workers, a new report shows. Pinnacol Assurance analyzed data to identify the most dangerous day for workers in Colorado, and found that over the past five years...
CAA Expands in Colorado, Iowa with Addition of 5 New Members
Jan 3 2020 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has kicked off 2020 with the addition of five new member agencies, bringing its total member count to 73. CAA is a privately held agency partner group comprised of...
Women Sue Frontier Airlines in Colorado Over Sex Assaults by Passengers
Jan 2 2020 // Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by passengers on Frontier Airlines flights sued the Denver-based budget carrier for allegedly refusing to help them and either not having or failing to follow policies to...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 West Region Stories of 2019
Jan 2 2020 // California wildfires dominated the news in Insurance Journal’s Western region in 2019, despite it being a quiet year relative to two consecutive years of deadly blazes that came before. Three of the year’s top...
In Midwest, Legal Marijuana Sales May Spark Interstate Tension
Dec 31 2019 // Retailers legally selling marijuana for the past month in Michigan say they have drawn customers from surrounding Midwestern states where the drug remains illegal and, as Illinois prepares to joins the recreational market...
