Latest Colorado Headlines
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Colorado Insurance Agencies RSS and DLP form Conexus Insurance Partners
Sep 23 2022 // Westminster insurance agencies RSS Insurance Services and Day Larsen Pedersen Insurance have merged into one, local independent insurance agency serving the Colorado community. The firms are now Conexus Insurance Partners....
Colorado River Nearing Crisis Point 100 Years After Compact
Sep 13 2022 // The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River amounts to what is fundamentally a math problem. The 40 million people who depend on the river to fill up a glass of water at the dinner table or wash their clothes or grow...
Hot Spots for Hot Cars: Colorado Leads U.S. in Vehicle Theft Rate, California in Overall Thefts
Sep 6 2022 // Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Colorado are all places where your car is most likely to be gone in 60 seconds. Vehicle thefts have skyrocketed in many areas of the U.S., according to the recently released...
Deadline for Western States to Cut Colorado River Use Looming
Aug 17 2022 // Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the Western U.S. hotter and drier. More than two decades of drought have done little to deter the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Denver Agency in Colorado
Aug 9 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Denver, Colorado-based Denver Agency. Denver Agency is a personal lines-focused insurance agency that specializes in serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients throughout...
People Moves: Risk Strategies Makes Roth Senior Vice President in Colorado; Dietrich Named to Pinnacol Board
Jul 29 2022 // Risk Strategies named Patrick Roth senior vice president, growth leader for the Central and West regions. Roth is located in Colorado. He will be responsible for developing a sales culture, managing all levels of...
Officials: Fatal Colorado Flood Caused by Quick Downpour on Burn Scar
Jul 19 2022 // The area in northern Colorado where a flash flood swept away a camping trailer, killing a woman and a child, received nearly an inch of rain in a matter of minutes. Frank Cooper, a National Weather Service meteorologist,...
People Moves: IMA Select in Colorado Names Harvath President; IOA Adds Armstrong
Jul 8 2022 // IMA Select in Colorado named Sandy Harvath president. Harvath has been with IMA Financial Group since 2003, most recently serving as the president of its Colorado market. She began her career at IMA as construction account...
Colorado Lawsuit: Hero Who Stopped Gunman Shot Without Warning
Jun 24 2022 // The mother of a man hailed as a hero for killing a gunman who ambushed and fatally shot a police officer only to be killed himself by another officer in suburban Denver filed a lawsuit alleging the officer who shot him...
Colorado Ski Resort Settles Suit Involving Fatal Lift Accident
Jun 21 2022 // The family of a woman who died after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort as she was riding up with her two young daughters has settled a wrongful death lawsuit. William Huber, the girls’ father,...
People Moves: IMA Names Karagozian Colorado Market President; IIABCal Names Epstein CEO
Jun 20 2022 // IMA Financial Group Inc. named Lauren Karagozian Colorado market president. Karagozian replaces Sandy Harvath, who will remain in a leadership role with the company. During her 14-year tenure at IMA, Karagozian has served...
Colorado Crash Involving SUV and Tractor-Trailer Kills 5
Jun 16 2022 // Five people from Wyoming, including an infant girl, are dead after the SUV they were in was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in northern Colorado. Investigators with the Colorado State Patrol say the SUV was in the left...
Investigators Say Colorado’s 2nd-Largest Fire Was Human-Caused
Jun 6 2022 // Investigators say Colorado’s second-largest wildfire on record was human-caused. The U.S Forest Service announced that the determination was made based on evidence gathered at the origin of the East Troublesome Fire,...
Colorado St. Hurricane Team Now Forecasts ‘Well Above-Average’ Hurricane Season
Jun 3 2022 // A day after hurricane season began on June 1, the hurricane research team at Colorado State University upped its forecast of the Atlantic hurricane season to “well above average” and predicted five major...
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...
