Latest Colorado Headlines
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Colorado Processing Plant Faulted in Listeria Outbreak
Oct 19 2011 // Unsanitary conditions at a packing plant that processed fresh cantaloupes from a Colorado farm likely contributed to one of the deadliest listeria outbreaks in U.S. history, health regulators said on Wednesday. The Food...
Report on Colorado’s Fourmile Fire: Insurance Losses Exceed $200 Million
Oct 14 2011 // A preliminary report on the 2010 Fourmile Canyon wildfire in Boulder County shows insured losses exceeded $200 million, fire management costs will have exceeded $14 million following rehabilitation efforts, and that while...
Report on Destructive Colorado Fourmile Fire Due Out Today
Oct 14 2011 // A preliminary report on the Fourmile wildfire in September, 2010, considered one of the most destructive in Colorado history, is due out today. A spokeswoman for Colorado Sen. Mark Udall said he plans to release a report...
Colorado Firms Wright Group and Pells Combine
Oct 5 2011 // A pair of Colorado insurance firms have joined forces for an expansion in the area, as well as nationally. The Wright Group Services and Pells Insurance Associates have combined resources to be better poised for continued...
Colorado, Oklahoma Metro Areas Dominate List of Hail-prone Cities
Oct 3 2011 // Metropolitan areas in Colorado and Oklahoma have the distinction of making up more than half the list of top 10 hail-prone areas in the United States, according to a recently released study. The list, which was compiled by...
Colorado Chemical Depot Says Safety Still a Concern
Sep 27 2011 // Federal officials say safety is still a concern at the Pueblo Chemical Depot because of leaking weapons. Quality assurance specialist Lisabeth Watchutka says more than 100 of the 780,000 chemical weapons stored at the...
Report: Colorado and Oklahoma Cities Dominate Top 10 Hail Prone Metro Areas
Sep 16 2011 // Metropolitan areas in Colorado and Oklahoma have the distinction of making up more than half the list of top 10 hail-prone areas in the U.S., according to a recently released study. The list, which was compiled by CDS...
Pinnacol Stops Administering Colorado State Claims
Sep 5 2011 // A Colorado-chartered workers’ compensation insurer will no longer administer the claims of state employees following disagreements with state officials over lavish trips, compensation and golden parachutes for...
Colorado Says It Has No Funds to Aid Earthquake Victims
Aug 29 2011 // Colorado officials say they have no money to help earthquake victims in southern Colorado. Department of Local Affairs spokeswoman Linda Rice said the state is providing technical assistance, including geological analysis,...
Colorado Residents Assess Quake Damage
Aug 26 2011 // DENVER _ Southern Colorado residents assessed damage to homes and businesses Wednesday from a magnitude-5.3 quake, the state’s biggest since 1967, as officials warned that minor aftershocks were expected for...
Colorado Jostled with Earthquake Aftershocks
Aug 25 2011 // Colorado has been jostled with 13 aftershocks after Monday night’s magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck just hours before a magnitude-5.8 temblor hit Virginia, earthquake monitors said Wednesday. Geophysicist Amy Vaughan...
Earthquake Hits Rural Colorado, Too
Aug 24 2011 // Virginia’s earthquake isn’t the only notable temblor to hit the United States this week. On Monday the largest earthquake to strike Colorado in almost 40 years shook hundreds of people in the southern part of...
Pinnacol Stops Administering Colorado State Claims
Aug 8 2011 // A Colorado-chartered workers’ compensation insurer will no longer administer the claims of state employees following disagreements with state officials over lavish trips, compensation and golden parachutes for key...
Eight More Colorado Counties Declared Disaster Areas
Aug 3 2011 // DENVER _ Eight more Colorado counties have been declared natural disaster areas because of drought and a freeze. Colorado Sen. Mark Udall’s office said Monday the designation encompasses Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla,...
Colorado Begins Enforcing Car-Seat to Age Eight Law
Aug 2 2011 // DENVER _ Car-seat requirements in Colorado are getting tougher Monday. A new state requirement being enforced Aug. 1 raises the car-seat requirement to age 8. Previously, children have had to be in car seats through age...
Colorado Issues Workers’ Comp Audit Guidelines
Aug 1 2011 // The Colorado Division of Insurance this week issued a bulletin directed at insurers that conduct workers’ compensation audits. Bulletin B-5.30 provides guidelines for insurers regarding the fees they charge when an...
Insurance Co. and Colorado Farmers Settle Fraud Claim
Jul 28 2011 // Two Colorado potato farmers and the Great American Insurance Company have agreed to settle a case in which they are accused of making false crop insurance claims for $131,000, the U.S. attorney in Denver, John Walsh,...
Hailstorms Result in 50,000 Claim Filings in Colorado, Wyoming
Jul 20 2011 // Mother Nature wrecked havoc along the Front Range and southeastern Wyoming last week — again living up to the region’s weather reputation as “hail alley.” The Rocky Mountain Insurance Information...
California Workers’ Compensation Law Draws Scrutiny with NFL Case
Jul 5 2011 // A leading Republican in the California State Legislature said he will push for an overhaul of a state labor law that makes the Golden State a magnet for workers’ compensation claims by injured former professional...
Riesberg Named Colo. Insurance Commissioner
Jul 4 2011 // Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced that Rep. Jim Riesberg will be the state’s new Commissioner of Insurance. He will resign his House seat on June 30 and start work on July 1. Riesberg will replace John J....
